Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/06/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi David, I suggest that you wait a while to see who will doing Leica warranty repairs in Canada in place of Lisle Kelco. I expect that an announcement will be made any day now. With luck it will be Gerry Smith and Kindermann Canada again (even with Leica USA as Distributor) and believe me if Gerry Smith can't fix it it can't be fixed. Regards, Greg David Young wrote: > Further to the "red streaking" on photos from my R8... > > I picked up three rolls of film a half hour ago. The test roll, all > shot this morning, was perfectly fine! A roll from the SL is fine. > > But the roll shot over the last week was smeared (streaked?) on 3 > frames. And, one of those frames was the middle one of a set of 3 > shots taken over 90 seconds! So obviously, time does not have a lot > to do with it. And, on this roll, for the first time, the streaking > has extended into the sprocket area, though only about 1/4 of a > sprocket length. This rules out the film gate blocking light from the > mirror box theory. > > So, finally the penny has dropped! > > The smearing has to be coming from the foam light seal around the film > window... as many of you had suggested. The portion of the frame > waiting to be transported into the film gate is about 1/3 out of the > cannister... and the smearing turns up 1/3 in from the furthest edge! > As many suggested, the straight edge in the streak is the film > cannister's edge. > > BUT.. > > It's not that simple! Replacing the foam, is not the cure. This I am > sure of! The foam is fine and not compressed with age, which is what > usually causes the problem. (Remember, the camera is but a year old.) > > Some of you may recall that when my R8 was less than a week old, a > third party strap failed and my nice, shiny new R8 hit the sidewalk > top side down, latch end first! > > Lisle-Kelco, then the Canadian Leica people, repaired the camera under > their "Passport-style" warranty. But when the camera was returned to > me, I had noticed that the back, at the latch-end, was a bit looser > than before. I assumed, that since it was just back from repair, this > was obviously OK. And, at the time, it was. > > However, close examination of the camera shows that it is now looser > still... indicating a latch problem! I surmise that if the latch is > allowing the back to open a bit more than it should, the edge of the > foam will no longer press against the cannister, and let light in! > > The problem then, is not one of time or of whether the window is > covered with a thumb, but of how the camera is held - specifically how > and where its back is pressed! > > I will shoot more rolls of film over the next week or two, leaving the > gaffers tape over the film window. If all is fine, then I can send it > in for repair, at my leisure. If it is not, I'll be back, with > further conundrums! > > Thanks to you all, for your aid and assistance! > > David. > ---------- > > David Young, | Libertè, egalitè, > Victoria, CANADA | fraternitè, et beaujolais. > > Website at: www.horizon.bc.ca/~dnr > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html > - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html