Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/16
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]jkish@mind.net wrote: > I got a weird roll of film today...about 1/4 of the shots had three bright > spots, running vertically, along the left edge of the frame. Film was T Max > 3200, subjects were a mix of outdoor, indoor, mostly pretty low light, but > some were a bit brighter, shot at 1/500 or 1/000. A 50mm Summar and 35mm > Elmar were used about 1/2 and 1/2, and both had the spots on some frames, > so I guess it isn't the lens. > > I've heard the IIIc is prone to light leaks, but I haven't had problems in > the past with this IIIf body or the 2 lenses, and film from a week earlier > was fine. Could it have spring 3 new light leaks so fast? Or? > > Thanks for any help, > > Jim Jim, A long time ago, I spent a winter in the Czch Republic with my IIIf. Much to my dismay, when I got home all the photos had a line on them. A little screw on the upper right hand side of the camera came loose and let light in. This was only on my black dial body. Later I got a red dial body, and they had done away with the toublesome screw altogether. Keith Bingman