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I have a Minolta Maxxum 3xi that has been working great up until recently. Now when I place a "new" roll of film into the camera and close the door, instead of advancing the film to the #1 picture, it rewinds the film back into to camera. I thought it was the film and have tried several different rolls, same outcome. Any help is appreciated.
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Probably a problem with the af/m switch so that even though switching to manual moves the connector out of the way (pulls it into the mount) the af motor continues to run. Remover the bottom and then the front cover and check the switch.
link to your manual, it tells us that we have a winding motor problem, I would do as you have done, so I would ensure that batterys are in great shape, the only other thing I could suggest is to try to turn the winding motor by hand in case it is just locked up. Failing that I presume the motor has died and needs replacement.
Okay. Just bear in mind that the exposure meter is going to be two stops off, unless you're getting the film pull-processed.
The Maxxum 3Xi unfortunately does not have a way of overriding the Camera Automatic Sensing portion of the DX encoding standard. That is, if the film cartridge has the DX encoding, the camera will set itself to the indicated speed.
However, if the film cartridge is NOT encoded, the camera will set itself to ISO 100. So, if you tape over the magnetic encoding on the cartridge...
The CAS is not the barcode on the film cartridge, but the rectangular patches of conductive and nonconductive material.
Take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DX_encoding for more information about the DX encoding.
It could be that there is a broken or missing gear in the rewind. It will spin but not catch. Sometimes when film is loaded it, is not drawing the film across and missing a gear, so it seems like your taking photos and its not. If you sent it to minolta, good luck, they were bought out by Konica, and probably didnt' do a thorough analysis of it.
I have a friend who fixes cameras. Cleans them, lubricates them, and callibrates them,
Hey Pix4me,
I would make sure that the manual rewind button on the back of the camera is not stuck in, or you're not accidentally hitting the manual rewind button. I hope this helps!
i donn't know what is the part in the right zone is like a blsck roll and the another is a func is another roll but this one is silver with like a eye and "osi","wl"and func in the center
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