[Leica] Burning a hole in the shutter

[george at imagist.com (George Lottermoser)]

Peter Klein5/19/04

>Does anyone have any firsthand information about such a 
>test?  Or, would anyone who actually burned a hole in their shutter be game 
>enough to tell us how it happened?

it happened to me. 

i simply discovered that the burning event occured when the exposed frames began showing the evidence in weird ways.

but i don't know how or when it happened. 
i know how it did not happen though. 
i didn't leave the camera laying out in the sun for any length of time.
i never do that with any camera, cloth curtain or not.
i also can't imagine the camera being on a tripod in sunlight, i don't use film that slow in 35mm.

unless i'm actively shooting, i'm a lens-cap-guy.

so i have to assume that i was actively shooting;
probably with two bodies.
and one of them hung in the right position, at the right focus, for the right amount of time. a fluke.

since that experience. short lenses always hang "lens-in" toward the body. long and/or heavy lenses tend to point down, away from sun source.


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