[LRflex] Re: R8 film scratching possibility

  • From: Gary Pinkerton <gpinkcp@xxxxxxx>
  • To: leicareflex <leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 11:51:30 -0500

Kevin

Please let us know the outcome.

Gary
 
> Subject: [LRflex] Re: R8 film scratching possibility
> From: kevinwilley@xxxxxx
> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 18:44:01 +0200
> To: leicareflex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> Aram,
> 
> Thank you for sharing. I'm off to Solms with my R8. 
> 
> Kevin
> 
> On Apr 19, 2010, at 4:34 AM, Aram Langhans wrote:
> 
> > 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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