Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/01/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]This is good advice... > Don't rule out the lab. > If they are using a roller transport or any type of processor where the > film is pulled through it is possible they are scratching the film. I've seen this happen once in a while at the budget grocery store lab we use for snapshots. But all the film scratched so far was processed by me, either by hand in steel tanks or on steel reels in a Wing-Lynch machine. It has to be one of the bodies. My test with Tri-X revealed no obvious scratches, from either body, but I haven't yet tried to scan the negatives. Does anyone know if there are any "usual suspects" within the body? The pressure plate comes immediately to mind. Someone wrote that small dust particles can make the scratches. I'm especially concerned about the force required on the rewind crank; it's much more than that required on the Nikons. - -Gary S. Colby