Re: [Leica] Have problem - any sugestions

[Leon Davenport <leonjdav@pacbell.net>]

It sounds to me that you may have had a shutter speed that was too fast for
the flash to sync.  The R8 has a vertical shutter so the top part of the
picture would be underexposed.  You didn't say that you had a TTL flash unit
if you had I don't think that you would have the problem.  I use the R8 and
sometimes when I use the internal flash meter I forget to turn it back to
manual for the correct exposure settings.

> From: TEXWORKER@aol.com
> Reply-To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 1999 12:24:05 -0500 (EST)
> To: leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us
> Subject: [Leica] Have problem - any sugestions
> 
> New R8 and I like it.  Took a roll of Kodacolor film the other day of
> grand-kids, etc., and gave the roll to mother to have developed.  She doesn't
> live in this area and took the roll back home to Midland, Texas.  The
> pictures were generally close-up and family gatherings generally filling the
> whole frame.  
> 
> Problem-When the roll came back all the heads that were near the top of the
> picture were either cut off or the top of the heads were missing.  I used a
> fill flash, although the photographs were taken outside.  Look at the
> negatives.  The same part of the heads or the parts of heads were missing.
> 
> Immediately, shot another roll, and everything seems OK.  Any ideas??  I have
> been taking pictures for 50 years (using Leicas) and to the best of my
> knowledge I have never chopped heads off.  Strange.
> 
> Clifton
>