Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]No, that's a new one on me.....I've had a camera where the RF had been pulled, and the little "shim" left out....and light would leak around the shutter baffle... but that was the wierdest thing I've seen..... I'd put a body cap on it, put a scrap of unexposed film in the body cavity, and carry it about in the sun...to see if light is getting into the "box" OTHER than through the lens mount....but I don't see how.....there is some light trap material above/around the lens mounting flange, in front/under the finder assembly, but that never has seemed a problem..... Keep us posted, tho....good to hear from you Mark... WAlt On Mon, 2 Oct 2000 10:03:49 -0500 Mark Rutledge <markrut@ticnet.com> wrote: > Bert, > I have had this a few times on my M6 and it confused the hell out of me! > The first time w/ an old Summitar and then with a 35 Summicron pre-asph. > The "fog" extends the whole horizontal length of the frame at the > bottom and even bleeds into the space between frames. The strange thing was > it started, like yours, a little way up the frame(don't have the neg in > front of me to measure) with an almost perfect straight edge. > I checked the lens, camera back, camera bottom for light leaks with a > flashlight and found nothing. The baffling thing was I know there was no > direct sun on the lens and the Summicron even had a hood when it occurred. > I checked the interior of the camera for anything "shiny" that may be > reflecting light. The only thing I saw that remotely could be causing it was > when the shutter was open the inside of the back half of the shutter > gate/path was unfinished metal. I'm not sure all M's are like this, so I > took a Sharpie and blacked as much as I could. I don't know if this helped > (haven't seen it again though!) but it was the only explanation I could > find. > Walt, you ever seen this? > > Mark Rutledge > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Bert Otten" <e.otten@med.rug.nl> > To: <Leica-Users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> > Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 5:32 AM > Subject: [Leica] Veiling Flare in an M4-P > > > > Regularly I have a veiling flare in my negatives and slides > > using the 35/2 Summicron latest non-ASPH and the > > 21/2.8 Elmarit ASPH. > > The flare occurs with strong side lights and does not > > affect a 1.7 mm strip at the lower border of the negative > > in the camera (which is at the top of the image when seen correctly). > > The flare is strongest close to this unaffected strip and is visible > > throughout the rest of the image. > <snip> > >