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Subject: [Leica] LEICA IIIF - I NEED SOME HELP
From: luisripoll at telefonica.net (Luis Ripoll)
Date: Tue Jun 5 16:39:35 2007

Hi all, and specially to the IIIF experts Daniel Ridings and Peter Dzwig
 
Usually I have some problems with the firsts shots on a film on my IIIF,
please see this picture:
 
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/01.jpg.html
 
the sky is with some bands (I hope you understand what I say). I have this
problem with the firsts pictures of the film, at least on the first ones is
very accentuated. A friend said me that this is produced because I don't cut
the beginning of the film as it is indicated on the IIIF, in my opinion is a
problem of training the film, but I think that's npo normal and probably it
is someting wrong either on my procedure or on my camera. If I said on my
procedure is because not always I have the problem, at least so strong as it
is showed here. Should I cut the film with the Leica special template tool?,
is a deffect of the camera?.
 
I ask me if it could be a curtain problem, please look at these two:
 
this one is clearly underexposed: 
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/06.jpg.html
 
and on this one I had a failure on the shutter / curtain:
http://gallery.leica-users.org/v/luisrq/07.jpg.html
 
Through these two last pictures your opinion will probably be, "this is a
shutter/curtain problem and your camera needs a CLA", but for me is
difficult to accept, if it was a mechanical problem it will be a permanent
problem on all the film, but the problem is basically on the first shots,
and when I've carefully cutted previously the film, I have practically
eliminated the problem, or reduced to only the 2 or 3 first pictures.
 
All these pictures has been not worked on Photoshop, they are as they are
scanned.
 
If someone has similar experiences it will be helpful for me, TIA for your
advices
 
Saludos cordiales
Luis

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