[Leica] LEICA IIIF - I NEED SOME HELP

[philippe.orlent at pandora.be (Philippe Orlent)]

Can't help you with this, Luis, but that first one definitely  
deserves to be restored.
Thanks for showing,
Philippe



Op 6-jun-07, om 01:39 heeft Luis Ripoll het volgende geschreven:

> 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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