Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]If you sespect a leak around the back door, shoot a roll (or half a roll) with the door taped up. This should confirm or exonerate. Ken Wikcox At 06:39 PM 8/28/99 EDT, you wrote: >Just received the slides for the last two rolls I shot. All were taken with >my M4-P with my "new" 50/2 Coll and 35/3.5 On some of the shots I'm having >what appears to be a light leak problem. The very top of the slide, say just >down from the mount edge, appears to be at a lower exposure than the rest of >the slide. On one slide, there is a serious amount of what I would call >"glare" like a window reflection, although there was no glass (outside the >camera) in the photo. Light angle appears not related to this, as in the >shot where it is the worst is where the sun was directly behind me. > >Now, this is not on all shots. Apparently it is on the "first" shot of a >series (after the camera has sat around for a while). My "guess" is there is >a small amount of light leak where the bottom meets the back flap. It does >not appear to be lens dependent, as I found two slides that were shot with >the 35/3.5 with the same problem, although much less. > >So, my suspects are either (1) a "Leitz leak", with the back flap as a the >culprit; (2) the 50/2 Coll (light may be getting in around the collapsable >collar) or (3) a combination of the two. There is also a possibility that >the lab had a problem and caused this, but I kinda doubt it. > >Any suggestions here? I can return the 50/2 Coll. if it is the problem. I >almost hope not, as it takes beautiful photos. > >While both rolls were shot in approximately two days, there were time periods >when the camera was lying in the back seat of the car (with lens cap on) with >daylight hitting the camera. > >Sorry this post is rather lengthy. I'm trying to give an adequate >description here and then see if anyone can diagnose this "blind". I'm not >going to lose too much sleep over it, since I'm betting if I just shot print >film, it would not even be noticable. > >Any suggestions you could give would be appreciated. > >Thanks, > >Eric Platt >St. Paul, MN > > - ------------------ Ken Wilcox Carolyn's Personal Touch Portraits LAW LHSA MEA <wilcox@tir.com>