Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/08/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hey group! I have a feeling that someone out there can probably help me to diagnose an intermittent problem with my (beloved) M-3, which has been spoiling a certain number of shots. What is does is to leave a horizontal band of over-exposed film near but not up to the top the frame. Usually the band is slightly wider at the left end of the final print than the right and the amount of over-exposure across the band is not even but increases as you move towards the top of the frame. The amound of over-exposure varies from being barely visible to being enough to seriously obsure the image. Does anyone have any ideas? At first I thought that it might be due to the curtain notsweeping the picture evenly, but that doesn't seem consistent with the fact that there is always correctly exposed film on both sides of the band. Gary