Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/12/31

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Subject: [Leica] shutter light leaks
From: jessen@gearbox.esd.sgi.com (Jesse Newcomb)
Date: Wed, 31 Dec 1997 11:19:02 -0800
 
Here's another bit of information:

I DID see light leaks around the upper and lower edges of the shutter curtain
with a 21mm Super-Angulon, and also with a 35mm Summicron.

I did NOT see light leaks [on another roll of film] with a 135 Hektor mounted.

Interesting, because the Super-Angulon gives probably the most tangential ray
pattern toward the shutter edges - aiming the light outward in all directions
from the rear element and straight into the shutter curtain channel. Still,
this really seems like such a glaring defect in design - I'm waiting to hear
about what others have seen.


- - jesse

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