Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/04/06
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Before panicking I would try loading another roll (trimmed) and shoot it and see what happens. Steve Annapolis - ---------- >From: John Collier <jbcollier@home.com> >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Subject: Re: [Leica] Film fragment in IIIf >Date: Thu, Apr 6, 2000, 7:10 AM > > Drop Sherry a line and ask her opinion. By the way, she will get very nasty > if you did not trim your film leader correctly! > > Sherry Krauter Golden Touch Quality Camera Repair > > 118 Purgatory Road > Campbell Hall, New York 10916 > 914-496-8834 > krauter@warwick.net > > > >> From: "Barker, J. Madison" <Matt.Barker@KutakRock.com> >> >> I'm getting better at loading my "new" IIIf (first Leica), but I recently >> messed up a leader to the extent that I turned two sproket holes in the edge >> of the film into one hole. In other words, I chipped out a piece of film >> itself about as big as one sproket hole. I was loading over a table, so I >> was able to look around for the film fragment: no luck. Tapped the (open) >> camera against my hand: no luck. Blew in the open camera: no luck. Maybe >> the fragment came out and I just didn't find it, but maybe it didn't come >> out. Can anyone suggest my next step? (And I hope it doesn't involve >> sending my just-CLA'ed-with-a-brand-new-shutter camera to a shop....) >> >> >