Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2009/02/26
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]I also use a 35 Summaron and a 90 Elmar. But my name is Mark. Mark William Rabiner > From: Gary Dalton <grdalton@hotmail.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org> > Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 21:30:42 -0800 > To: LUG <lug@leica-users.org> > Subject: RE: [Leica] LTM windfall: Follow-up Question > > > My M2 was asleep for 20 years and I've been exercising it: with and without > film. I used a 35 Summaron and a 90 Elmar for test shots at various speeds > and > apertures, and they came out fine -- no flares, etc.... > > When I exercise the M2 without film, I've not always had a cap over the > shutter opening. Looking into the opening before I press the button, I see > a > perfectly smooth black surface -- a canvas if you will. After I release the > shutter, I still see most of that canvas, but at the far left end toward > the > rewind side of the camera, I see what appears to be a "rubber seam." When I > cock the camera for the next shot, it goes away -- sliding back to the > right. > > Should I be seeing this seam after I take the shot? > > Does seeing this seam mean that the shutter isn't closing all the way? > > > > > > >> Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 23:55:21 -0500 >> To: lug@leica-users.org >> From: marcsmall@comcast.net >> Subject: Re: [Leica] LTM windfall >> >> Ken >> >> Welcome to the windfall. Several points. >> >> Mechanical cameras get lazy when allowed to sleep >> for decades. Shucks, I am lazy all the time but >> am worse when I get to sleep a full 12 or 14 >> hours. Exercise the cameras for a day. Get a >> riveting long movie to watch -- say, go to your >> local library and check out DOCTOR >> ZHIVAGO. Then, just keep advancing the camera >> and snapping the shutter while you observe >> Zhivago sink into destruction. Set it on 1/30" >> at first but gradually move the speeds around >> from top to bottom. In 90% of the cases, that >> will cure the sloth mode problem. No need for a >> CLA unless the shimming under the lens mount has >> gotten rotten, and that is VERY rare though, to >> be fair, it did happen on my IIIc. >> >> The lenses? If you cannot clean them, there is >> only one place to send them. John Van Stelten at >> Focal Point. Feel free to use my name: I have >> hawked his virtues long and hard for more than >> twenty years, and I will continue to do >> so. Whenever I have a lens which needs service, >> poof! it is off to Colorado. John is backlogged >> with work but his work is impeccable. (If I were >> as smart as Mark Rabiner, I'd recall the Latin >> for, "forgive me, Lord, for I have sinned", as >> that ends with "peccavi" but, alas, it is late >> and my wife and I spent the evening watching >> WITCHBLADE episodes, so I will give that a pass, >> albeit I do have an MA in Classical Languages and should know better!) >> >> I very rarely look at the pictures folks post and >> whether you post or not is your own >> business. What is of concern to me is that the >> cameras and lenses get used. These were built to >> last for centuries and are capable of grand >> pictures today. I would urge you to so use >> them. Putting them on a shelf or selling them to a collector would be a >> sin. >> >> Marc >> >> >> >> >> msmall@aya.yale.edu >> Cha robh b?s fir gun ghr?s fir! >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > _________________________________________________________________ > Windows Live?: Discover 10 secrets about the new Windows Live. > http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F > 681DAD532637!7540.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_ugc_post_022009 > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information