On 4/14/2010 12:35 PM, Gary Pinkerton wrote: > I've had an occasional scratch or two on film from both my R8 bodies, and > I've also had similar scratches from my SL. > > Unless it begins to show up frequently, and only on my R8s, I'm gonna lay it > on to occasional film bits, or dirt getting into the film chamber, or bad > processing. > > > Gary, Reg, Looking at that image, I suspect the processing, whenever I've had an emulsion scratch like that, it's been perfectly horizontal. (Typically it would be due to something hard stuck in the felt light trap in the cassette.) I haven't had any scratch problems with the Standard, SL, M2, M4 or IIIF bodies. I've never had an R body. -- Charlie Falke _____ /\ | __/\__/------/__) |(____\/_________/ "One test result is worth | |/ `o one thousand expert opinions" - Wernher Von Braun 0 N4003M "Imagination is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein ------ Unsubscribe or change to/from Digest Mode at: http://www.lrflex.furnfeather.net/ Archives are at: //www.freelists.org/archives/leicareflex/