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Subject: [Leica] Troubleshooting
From: philippe.amard at tele2.fr (Philippe AMARD)
Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 07:42:57 +0200
References: <BLU146-W3F311EDE8ADBB36B24CE2C6550@phx.gbl> <2E5AC1CF09AD4A37ABB49D28D88233E1@jimnichols> <BLU146-W30951A2200136A21A453F9C6550@phx.gbl>

Gary, you refer to prints, have you examined the negs?
can you post a scan as is
ph


Gary Dalton wrote:

>Thanks, Jim. I'm thinking CLA...
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>>From: jhnichols at lighttube.net
>>To: lug at leica-users.org
>>Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 21:25:10 -0500
>>Subject: Re: [Leica] Troubleshooting
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>>Gary,
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>>I have a Leica IIIa that sometimes shows those characteristics at 1/500 
>>and 
>>1/1000, but it has been that way for 55 years, so I just avoid the higher 
>>speeds. If yours is down in the lower speeds, I suspect it needs shutter 
>>attention.
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>>Jim Nichols
>>Tullahoma, TN USA
>>----- Original Message ----- 
>>From: "Gary Dalton" <grdalton at hotmail.com>
>>To: "LUG" <lug at leica-users.org>
>>Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 8:10 PM
>>Subject: [Leica] Troubleshooting
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>>>A black band is showing up on some of my prints. This band encroaches 
>>>from 
>>>the right edge of a print (if you think of it as a landscape perspective) 
>>>in varying widths -- 1/10 of the way into the print all the way up to 
>>>2/3. 
>>>But, sometimes it's not there at all. If I am shooting from portrait 
>>>perspective, the black encroachment occurs at the top of the image.
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>>>Regardless of how far it might extend into the image, the remaining part 
>>>of the exposed image can be just fine, even perfect.
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>>>The line where the black band meets the "good" image is not usually a 
>>>clean cut line; I want to say it's fuzzy, soft, less opaque than the rest 
>>>of the black band. When it intrudes 2/3 the way across a print, it tends 
>>>to be more clean cut, with a more definite edge. It isn't soft or fuzzy.
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>>>I am wondering if I have a shutter curtain issue... The bands appear way 
>>>to organized to simply be a leak. At least, that's my novice notion.
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>>>Because it IS difficult to rewind a roll of film, I thought it might be a 
>>>film advance issue. But, none of the images seem to be overlapping each 
>>>other. If it weren't for the black bands encroaching from the edge, what 
>>>I 
>>>composed would still be there.
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>>>Your thoughts?
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