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So I phoned a cacora dealer in Nassau^ and much to isy surprise, 
found that he carried a Bolex l6-Bnn in stock — one that I could purchase 
vithout lenses. Som of the fittings on the new camera differed from the 
one I had been using, but after a half-day of tinkering and adjusting, the 
new camera (hereafter to be known as #5) was in the undersea housing and 
ready for business. It had only one fault — without film in it the camera 
sounded smooth as silk; but with a load of film in its teeth it rumbled 
like a lumber wagon. Nothing to do but use it arywayj I could see nothing 
wrong with it, and it ap^^rently did not lose its loop. I checked every- 
thing checkable, could find nothing wrong, and put it to work — with 
ny fingers crossed. 
Reports were coming in from the film processor, f^y #2 camera (now 
retired) ted lost the loop on ei^t hundred feet of film, with more still 
unaccounted for. Much of it could not be re -shot. One of the rolls had 
been our tests of the latest batch of film, the medium speed (f®) Ekta- 
clirome. But we liasJ used up our supply of Cossaercial, and there was nothing 
to do but begin shooting the ® withcxit tests. !Ihe print from sob® of our 
night shots had come in and was almost brown from lack of proper filtering, 
so we added a blue filter for the night work. Consequently, we were then 
shooting with an untried casiera on an untested film with an untested filter 
In view of the astounding lack of success in mny directions this sujimsr , 
that could be called a very long shot. But as usual we had no choice. 
Our close-up camera (^3) soiinding very queer, although it had 
Just returned from surgery, but I could find no evidence that it was losing 
