[Leica] LEICA IIIF - I NEED SOME HELP

[jhnichols at bellsouth.net (Jim Nichols)]

Luis,

Since the Leica shutter travels horizontally, it is difficult for me to 
accept that the banding is caused by a camera problem.  The last frame is an 
extreme example of what I have seen as a shutter adjustment problem at 1/500 
and 1/1000 of a second.  Do you process the film yourself?

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Luis Ripoll" <luisripoll@telefonica.net>
To: "'Leica Users Group'" <lug@leica-users.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 6:39 PM
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
>
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