[Leica] LEICA IIIF - I NEED SOME HELP

[leicam4pro at yahoo.com (John Biava)]

Luis,
   
  The monitor I am using is not good enough to show the bands.  But another 
question is this: Could this be light leaking through when you are loading 
the camera ?
   
  1.  The felt light traps could be leaking light.
  2.  Light striking the edge of the film can be "piped" through just like a 
fiber optic.
   
  But once again, I will implore you to buy a film trimming template and 
trim the leader with a long tongue for the Leica III.  You can damage the 
shutter curtains while loading film with the short tongue that is used today.

Luis Ripoll <luisripoll@telefonica.net> wrote:
  Thank you very much to all who have gave your opinion: John Biava, Neal,
Jim, Mark, Robert, Mike, Len, Ric, Hoppy, Daniel... I want discard some
possible defaults:

- The bands are visible on the film
- I always use the same films and the same Lab, there is no reason that this
problem arrive only with the IIIF
- No x-rays, and neither no exposed to the sun
- No scanning problem, if so, why only this problem with the IIIF?

My conclusions are, probably is a curtain deffect BUT on this case all the
film will be affected, for this reason I think as most probably reason to a
deffect when training the begining of the film, I remember that the axis of
the training spool is not well fixed, and it moves, I don't know if it is
normal, I don't think so. It is very probable that when I start a new film
the axis moves and varies its position, after some shots it has a certain
volume and remain quite and fixed. I will unload the camera and observe some
experiments and compare with other IIIF on a local shop.

Thanks a lot for all your responses and your help, anyway, I'm sure that a
good CLA will be better.

Anyone of you know if the rangefinder contrast (for focusing) could be
replaced?

I think that in Europe I can obtain a good CLA by Lutton, or Malcolm Taylor,
but previously I want to do my experiments...

Thanks again,
Saludos desde Barcelona
Luis 





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