[Leica] Troubleshooting

[grdalton at hotmail.com (Gary Dalton)]

Thanks, Jim. I'm thinking CLA...



> From: jhnichols at lighttube.net
> To: lug at leica-users.org
> Date: Sun, 24 May 2009 21:25:10 -0500
> Subject: Re: [Leica] Troubleshooting
> 
> Gary,
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> I have a Leica IIIa that sometimes shows those characteristics at 1/500 
> and 
> 1/1000, but it has been that way for 55 years, so I just avoid the higher 
> speeds. If yours is down in the lower speeds, I suspect it needs shutter 
> attention.
> 
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Gary Dalton" <grdalton at hotmail.com>
> To: "LUG" <lug at leica-users.org>
> Sent: Sunday, May 24, 2009 8:10 PM
> Subject: [Leica] Troubleshooting
> 
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> > A black band is showing up on some of my prints. This band encroaches 
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> > the right edge of a print (if you think of it as a landscape 
> > perspective) 
> > in varying widths -- 1/10 of the way into the print all the way up to 
> > 2/3. 
> > But, sometimes it's not there at all. If I am shooting from portrait 
> > perspective, the black encroachment occurs at the top of the image.
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> > Regardless of how far it might extend into the image, the remaining part 
> > of the exposed image can be just fine, even perfect.
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> > The line where the black band meets the "good" image is not usually a 
> > clean cut line; I want to say it's fuzzy, soft, less opaque than the 
> > rest 
> > of the black band. When it intrudes 2/3 the way across a print, it tends 
> > to be more clean cut, with a more definite edge. It isn't soft or fuzzy.
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> > I am wondering if I have a shutter curtain issue... The bands appear way 
> > to organized to simply be a leak. At least, that's my novice notion.
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> > Because it IS difficult to rewind a roll of film, I thought it might be 
> > a 
> > film advance issue. But, none of the images seem to be overlapping each 
> > other. If it weren't for the black bands encroaching from the edge, what 
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> > composed would still be there.
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