Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/20
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on 19/2/00 10:00 pm, Mitch Zeissler at zeissler@wt.infi.net wrote:
> Yep; I noticed the same thing when I ran some film with a borrowed Heliar.
> I would imagine it is normal.
>
> /Mitch
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Bob Keene/Karen Shehade
>> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2000 1:57 PM
>> Subject: [Leica] Heliar 15 comments/ film spacing
>>
>> One thing I've noticed about shooting with the 15 Heliar on my Tower/Nicca
>> 5L... looking at the contact sheets it's apparent that the coverage is so
>> great that there is very little space between frame edges on the
>> negatives... the 15 actually produces more image sapce on the film, so
>> instead of, say, an 1/8th of an inch between frames, one is left with only
>> 1/16th of an inch (approximate guestimate). At first I thought my newly
>> CLA'd Nicca had to go back to the shop because of a film advance problem,
>> but I looked closer and saw that the spacing was'normal' where I'd used a
>> 50 or 35 lens.
>> Makes cutting the negatives abit of a challenge. I haven't run
>> film through
>> an M6 or M2 with the Helair, anybody else notice this?
This seems bizarre to me... it's not the lens but the film gate that
determines the shape of the negative, isn't it?
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