Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]The Leica CL I purchased a few months ago still has a light leak that I cannot seem to fix, no matter how much black tape I use: at the beginning some slides had a very distinct light flare, from the middle of the wide edge of the slide into the middle of the frame. By taking into account that the image is reversed, it appeared to me that the right side of the outer shell of the CL, which goes into the side where the counter is located, was the problem: the edge of the shell had been bent so that it would trigger the frame counter. So I bent the edge back so that there would be no gap between the outer shell and the body. This seemed to help but I still got _some_ slides washed out in the middle (and the frame counter stopped working). So I put some tape between the shell and the body, just the right side. Same thing. Now I put tape in nearly every edge, and it's still doing the same thing. I don't know what to do (or what else to tape). The shutter curtain seems OK, I try to look for light 'holes' by looking against a light source, but everything seems OK. Any ideas? (other than wait for an M6 or just use it for B&W) Thanks, Julio