I have been going through and gathering information on the grafmatic 4x5 film holders (See the next post for some things I found interesting in reading some other threads here. )
I have a few questions:
Q1: Is it normal for a septum to be bent at the end? should it be in a particular position in the stack? see picture.
When reading the instruction sheet, before replacing the septums in the compartment, it says to push up on the sliding plate (fig. 4) - which sounds like ' reseting the film holder' which I have seen mentioned before.
Q2: is this step necessary on all models? it seems mine automatically have the sliding plate pushed up in towards to darkslide when I open it to reload it.
Q3: Does anyone know how the film identification / counter wheel works? Mine isn't advancing consistently, and i'd like to fix it. I hear it is easy to remove replace, so hopefully easy to get working correctly.
Is there anyway to re-cover the film after it has come into position?
Q4: is the only solution to cycle through the whole pack to get back to that sheet of film?
(Q5: what was it Linhof claimed was getting scratched?")
Thanks!
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