Re: [Leica] CL with ligh leak

[John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>]

I am not very experienced with the CL (vertical shutter) but could it be a
shutter problem? M cameras will do similar things when their shutters need
work. I would try going to a local repair place and have the shutter tested.
They may not want to work on it, I have read that the CL is tricky to work
on, but they should be able to test it for you.

John Collier

> From: Julio Marcos <jmarcos@DonJulio.net>
> 
> 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)