Flare or Transmigration?

[GeneW]

Do the speeds sound consistent?

Other than 1/30, the speeds are spot on. I haven't tried 1/15 or anything slower.

Do Leicas have a slow-speed gear train, like the Rollei TLR's?

Gene

 

[Pherdinand]

i think it's a shutter capping problem. Did you cock the shutter right before or after the shot? When there's a little slit left open and you cock the shutter this is what should happen - a "ghost" image over the whole neg area showing camera shake too.

 

[GeneW]

i think it's a shutter capping problem. Did you cock the shutter right before or after the shot? When there's a little slit left open and you cock the shutter this is what should happen - a "ghost" image over the whole neg area showing camera shake too.

I cocked the shutter both just before and just after. I took a horizontal that also showed this ghosting, to a somewhat lesser degree. A third shot, taken by the person in the photo, was taken shortly after and, aside from camera shake, showed no appreciable ghosting. All three shots taken at 1/30.

So why would a little slit be left open? I'm new to the term "shutter capping".

Gene

 

[FrankS]

Pherdinand made me think. If the frame is very dark and over-exposed, then my first guess about the 2nd curtain hesitating for 1/2 sec or so is still possible. If the frame is not heavily over-exposed, and you did, as Pherdinand suggested, wind on the camera while having it sort of pointed to the subject, or while you were bringing the camera to your eye, then Pherdinand's explanation rules!

 

[Hektor]

I have the Rapid Load kit on the M3 SS. Honestly, buying a second standard take-up spool and pre-threading it for drop-in is as fast (or faster) for reloading.

Well thats true if you have an M3, but he hasn't. He's got an M2.

Most people don't realise that the rapid load kit was specifically designed for the M2, and is of much less assistance on an M3.

The crical difference is the film counter, you have to take the spool out of the M3 to reset the counter, but not so on the M2.

Dropping just a film in is much quicker than taking out the film and spool, and then fitting in a new film and spool combination.

Of course if any of this bothers you consider an M4 onwards, - they all have rapid load as standard

 

[Hektor]

Ghost-image and shutter capping.

If the shutter fails to cap and leaves a thin open slit which is drawn across the film as the shutter is re-wound, then the "ghost" image produced is a heavy exposure because the shutter normally travels across the whole frame in 1/50 sec.

In this case the ghost is not heavy, it's light. So I suggest, although it seems unlikely, that the ghost was caused by an accidental second thin exposure caused by an inadvertant release. possibly the latch failed allowing the shutter to fly back with a thin slot, and needing an extra stroke on the winder to latch the shutter.

 

[GeneW]

Frank, I exposed the backlit scene generously but I wouldn't call it overexposed. About what I expected in terms of exposure.

Hektor, thanks for the explanation. I'll play some more before I decide on a CLA. Maybe it was simply a weird set of circumstances -- or maybe his soul really was leaving his body! (It's possible -- he went into management) 😀

Gene

 

[Hektor]

Yeah, looks the management type to me...... 😉

I think you got two broad possibilities, a) a bit of torn film floating around, b) you need a CLA.

Either way shoot some more and see how it goes, we've all been there, it's no big deal in the long run.


edit: or you need a coffee exorcist....the coffee's lost it's soul too....i've had coffee like that

 

[FrankS]

The beauty of the Leica (and other quality RF cameras) is that they are designed and built to be repaired. Not so true about modern polycarbonate wonder cams.

 

[Hektor]

So true Frank, you can still get a zorki for 15GBP witha J8, in the U.K. "car boot" sales, and if you try really hard at some of the camera fairs, a battered leica IIIa for 100GBP.

 

[Trius]

Gene: Don't put it in for CLA until after the 12th. I want a picture of my soul at Balzac's.

Trius

 

[GeneW]

I'm not bothered by its possibly needing a CLA -- I figure any good 60's camera I purchase used will need one sooner or later.

Trius, I'll hang on to it until after the 12th. We'll move All Soul's Day up a few days in the calendar so I can steal the spirits of RFF Toronto and Great Lakes Region and put them on display here! 😀

Gene