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Handling Faults and Remedies

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Fault

Meter needle does not respond

Shutter does not release

Picture unexposed or partly exposed

Possible Cause

Preselected exposure time outside setting range

Battery exhausted, not inserted or wrongly inserted

Rapid winding lever only partly tensioned

Shutter speed too fast for flash bulbs

Remedy

Select shorter or longer exposure time (see how)

Change or (correctly) fit the battery (see how)

Fully pull out rapid winding lever (see hint 10)

Shutter speed 1/30 second or longer

(see hint 5)

Picture under- or overexposed

Whole film under- or overexposed

Whole film unexposed

	Wrong exposure measurement	Measure brightness of main
		subiect. See close-up or substitute
		readings, (see hint 9)
	Wrong film speed setting	Set film speed correctly. See ASA
	Wrong film speed setting	value on film packing
		value on film packing
	Film has not advanced due to faulty	Correctly load film (see how),
	loading or because torn	advance smoothly but not too fast
		(see how)

Image partly or completely unsharp

Rewind knob does not turn

Subject movement: exposure time too long for moving subject

Camera shake: exposure time too long for hand-held shot

Image inaccurately fosused

Film wrongly loaded

Use faster shutter speed (see hint 6)

Support camera or use a tripod (see hint 6)

Focus exactly (see how)

Correctly load film, leader into outer slot (see how)

Film torn	Remove torn piece of film (in the
	dark, if exposed), trim new leader
	and rethread (see how)

Heavy resistance against film advance

Bright pictures areas washed-out and almost colourless, dark picture areas almost black and without discernable detail

Excessive exploitation of film length, film entirely wound off

Light contrast excessive for colour film: particularly with against-the-light shots, market and street scenes under high sun, beach and mountain scenes at midday

Avoid any force, rewind film somewhat, then finish lever stroke. If film is torn out of cartridge: open back in total darkness only, rewind film by hand and wrap up light-proof

Select different picture area, photograph very bright and very dark subjects separately, change viewpoint or direction: give preference to morning or afternoon sun which is more suitable for photographing,

(see hint 9)

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All this information, texts, and images were extracted from the original "Rollei 35/35T/35S In Practical Use" and intends to give some guidelines to new users that don't have access to the original manual. (c) Rollei-Werke Franke & Weidecke