[KOML] Rapid Omega Film advance question

[Clive Warren <Clive.Warren>]

Dear All,

Hope you had an excellent holiday.  Gave a couple of my Koni lenses a treat
at my favourite repairers just before Christmas in peparation for burning
some film over the break.

As it turned out only managed a couple of rolls of B/W and one chrome - the
weather was so grim that any outside work was done very close to the car.
Have a neat shot of a Harrier Jump Jet sitting in a field in the middle of
the countryside near the coast though.....

It transpires that the Koni Rapid-Omega that I have lovingly brought back
from the dead still has a couple of gremlins.  The first of these is the
film advance which unlike my "200" model only seems to change the wind-on
stroke length at frame 3 and frame 6.  This results in the loss of the last
10% of the final image as the spacing between frames becomes progressively
too large.

Is this a design fault of the earlier Rapid-Omegas or should the mechanism
work in the same way as my 200 ie reduce the amount of wind-on at every
stroke?

Does anyone have a spare back they would like to sell me?

The second problem is a very slight light leak outside the image area of
the film, which is coming from the top of the camera somewhere - that
should be realatively easy to sort out.


I now have a Rapid M which someone has used to hit a bash a nail in before
photographing it :-)   This will be a long term project. however to get it
on the road to recovery it requires front and rear viewfinder glasses.  I
could probably make the front glass at a push, but it looks as though the
rear glass is a lense.  There are also a few screws missing here and there
etc etc.  Does anyone have scrap cameras or parts boxes out there?

Happy New Year...


All the best,

              Clive   http://clive.bel-epa.com