Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/19

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Heliar 15 comments/ film spacing
From: "Mitch Zeissler" <zeissler@wt.infi.net>
Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2000 17:00:07 -0500

Yep; I noticed the same thing when I ran some film with a borrowed Heliar.
I would imagine it is normal.

/Mitch

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Keene/Karen Shehade
> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 1:57 PM
> Subject: [Leica] Heliar 15 comments/ film spacing
>
> One thing I've noticed about shooting with the 15 Heliar on my Tower/Nicca
> 5L... looking at the contact sheets it's apparent that the coverage is so
> great that there is very little space between frame edges on the
> negatives... the 15 actually produces more image sapce on the film, so
> instead of, say, an 1/8th of an inch between frames, one is left with only
> 1/16th of an inch (approximate guestimate). At first I thought my newly
> CLA'd Nicca had to go back to the shop because of a film advance problem,
> but I looked closer and saw that the spacing was'normal' where I'd used a
> 50 or 35 lens.
> Makes cutting the negatives abit of a challenge. I haven't run
> film through
> an M6 or M2 with the Helair, anybody else notice this?