Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/11/19

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Subject: Re: [Leica] Questions on M3, 1/1000
From: Dennis Painter <dpainter@bigfoot.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 06:35:59 -0800
 
Peter Niessen wrote:
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> I have purchased a M3, serial # 900000 lately. It works fine, but the
> 1/1000s exposes only 4/5 of the frame. Funnily, there is no straight
> vertical line, but it's diagonal:
> 
> +----------+
> |        //|
> |       ///|
> |      /||||
> +----------+
> 
> (This is exaggerated)
> 
> I hope a bit of training will cure this, otherwise I can live with
> 1/500.
> 
> Cheers, Peter.

Needs a CLA (clean, lubricate, adjust) The 2nd curtain is "catching" the
1st.  Could also affect the eveness of exposure across the frame.

The diagonal is because one edge of the 2nd curtain covers a bit before
the second edge.

Serial 900000 has to be a rare number! ;-)

Dennis