Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/09/24
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]my IIIf does this as well, although my m-3 does not. I finally figured out that the light is not oozing around the edge of the shutter curtain -- it is going right through it. Especially if you use a wide angle lens, the sun projected onto the shutter curtain, especially a 50-year old one, glows right through that sucker. Use thy lens cap, cover the lens when not shooting whenever possible. Have the curtain laminated with black vynal? ctrentelman In a message dated 9/24/01 1:06:38 AM, owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us writes: << Dave - This reminds me - just a bit - of a light leak problem I've diagnosed in my IIIf and, to a lesser degree, an M6. In my cases, it occurs during a lens change in bright light. As best I can tell, the tracks in which the shutter curtains travel are not especially close fitting, and light can sort of "wrap around" the top and/or bottom of the shutter curtain when the lens is off. Fogging is worst near the edges of the film, fading out toward the middle, although there is a band of a millimeter or two right at the upper and lower edges of the image that is not fogged. >> - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html