[LRflex] Re: R8 film scratching possibility
- From: Aram Langhans <leica_r8@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: leica reflex freelists <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 19:34:35 -0700
Haven't read all 300 messages in my backlog, but I do have experience with
this. Maybe it has already been said. I have an R8 and it did give me
periodic scratches that I could not blame on processing. I had to send it to
Solms for some work and they changed the pressure plate, besides replacing some
electronics, and I never had scratching problems again. Not sure if I ran the
magic 150 rolls through it, though. Acutally, I had never heard of the magical
150 rolls.
Aram
> Subject: [LRflex] Re: R8 film scratching possibility
> From: rsphotoimages@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 21:59:45 -0700
> To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Have both R8 and R9. R8 had a problem with the "door" that displays the film
> cassette. There was a minute light leak that developed after 15 rolls. Left a
> uniform vertical band on every frame.
>
> Leica USA fixed no charge - also made the R8 "DMR-Compatible" - whatever that
> was.
>
> No more light leak, no other problems. Both bodies continue to be pretty much
> bullet proof.
>
> Could the display door assembly scratch film? Maybe.
>
> But I think the designers thought about that so you'd have to look at the
> door insert very carefully to detect a "scratch hazard".
>
> I gotta believe it's something else in the film transport cycle.
>
> Bob
>
>
>
> Bob Shaw
> rsphotoimages@xxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
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