Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/06/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Luis, here are my fault finding suggestions Carefully check if the banding is visible on the negs I don't think that it fits a shutter blind movement because the direction is wrong. Is the film bulk loaded into reused cassettes? Could there be slight light leak at the seal of the cassette? I would try a different film, say slides, just to eliminate a processing error. It does not look like a processing error to me, though. I don't see how a loading mistake or film trimming mistake could cause this. In those cases we might see the film jam? Check the scanner. As you have an older flatbed, try pressing gently down on the glass during a scan. See if it hesitates. Some older scanners start to slip or jam on movement of the scanning head assembly. Good luck Hoppy -----Original Message----- Subject: [Leica] LEICA IIIF - I NEED SOME HELP 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 _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information