[Leica] LEICA IIIF - I NEED SOME HELP

[len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier)]

Luis,

This seems like a mystery to me. Have you looked at the negatives  
through a loupe to see if the banding is there as well?  To me it  
looks more like a scanning problem but you should see it on your M  
body negatives as well if it were. The banding is in the wrong  
direction for it to be a shutter problem. If it was a film leader  
problem I would expect the film to show a catch mark where the film  
catches on the shutter opening frame. The only time my film caught  
because of the short leader, the film pulled out of the spool and had  
a tear.

I have only seen these bands when it was caused by a scanner.

Len


On Jun 5, 2007, at 7:39 PM, Luis Ripoll wrote:

> Hi all, and specially to the IIIF experts Daniel Ridings and Peter  
> Dzwig
>
> Usually I have some problems with the firsts shots on a film on my  
> IIIF,
> please see this picture:
>
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/01.jpg.html
>
> the sky is with some bands (I hope you understand what I say). I  
> have this
> problem with the firsts pictures of the film, at least on the first  
> ones is
> very accentuated. A friend said me that this is produced because I  
> don't cut
> the beginning of the film as it is indicated on the IIIF, in my  
> opinion is a
> problem of training the film, but I think that's npo normal and  
> probably it
> is someting wrong either on my procedure or on my camera. If I said  
> on my
> procedure is because not always I have the problem, at least so  
> strong as it
> is showed here. Should I cut the film with the Leica special  
> template tool?,
> is a deffect of the camera?.
>
> I ask me if it could be a curtain problem, please look at these two:
>
> this one is clearly underexposed:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/06.jpg.html
>
> and on this one I had a failure on the shutter / curtain:
> http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/07.jpg.html
>
> Through these two last pictures your opinion will probably be,  
> "this is a
> shutter/curtain problem and your camera needs a CLA", but for me is
> difficult to accept, if it was a mechanical problem it will be a  
> permanent
> problem on all the film, but the problem is basically on the first  
> shots,
> and when I've carefully cutted previously the film, I have practically
> eliminated the problem, or reduced to only the 2 or 3 first pictures.
>
> All these pictures has been not worked on Photoshop, they are as  
> they are
> scanned.
>
> If someone has similar experiences it will be helpful for me, TIA  
> for your
> advices
>
> Saludos cordiales
> Luis
>
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