Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/12/17
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hello, Recently I got a Canon IVSB rangefinder camera where the first shutter curtain had a lot of light leaks. I managed to repair them quite well by painting the shutter curtains with a Deka Silk ink (acrylic based ink for textile). I did the testing by pointing 50mm/1,5 lens wide open to the sun for a dozen of seconds. Now I can do that and there is no effect on the photos. Yesterday I got a Leica M3 (finally!!) and I did the same test (with summicron 50mm wide open), and on one of the photos there was a light leak noticeable in left side of the photo spreading and fading to the right. All other photos came out just fine. My question is should I worry about it, or have the camera checked by an expert (but this is expensive!)? Or in the other words how light tight are the shutter curtains supposed to be? Thanks in advance. Best regards, Matej Novak - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html