Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1996/11/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I recently bought two IIIa's from different sources. I've been using M3/M4/M6 for a couple of years and was interested to see what the older rangefinders were like. Both camreas exhibit the following: On the bottom of the developed film, the exposed area extends down to the tops of the sprocket-holes in the film. The top of the image is about 1.1 mm from the top sprocket-holes and seems parallel with the edge of the film. Any comments on this phenoninon? I would have thought it a defect in the way the film runs through the camera were both cameras not exhibiting the same symptoms. Or, more likely, it could be human error... Other than the above the results on b&w film are great: the images are sharp and contrasty and print easily. Comments or other information welcome. Benjamin Marks bm4f@virginia.edu