Wayne,
Looked at the photograph. Appears to fit the description of "shutter
capping" which is the closing curtain catching up with the opening curtain
resulting in under-exposure near the frame edge at end of shutter
travel. Symptoms can look like a gradual under-exposure across the frame,
to this one which is a darker band, to a completely (or very nearly so)
unexposed strip.
This symptom can also result from "bounce" which is the opening curtain
rebounding slightly across the edge of the film gate at end of
travel. Similar result with closing curtain catching up to it sooner due
to the rebound.
Images on film are upside down and reversed from what you see in the
viewfinder. This means the dark band is occurring on the left edge as you
look in the back of the camera through the film loading door, which should
put the band at the end of curtain travel. If it is "capping" or
"bouncing" its symptoms are expected to become more prominent as shutter
speed increases (not necessarily in strip width, but in noticeable exposure
difference).
My Contax IIIa CD occasionally does this at 1/1250th, its top shutter
speed. Never happens at slower ones.
-- John
At 21:14 4/4/02, C.H. Ling wrote:
> Hi Wayne,
>
> My OM40(PC) exactly have the same problem as yours, I think it was shutter
> calibration problem but as it is a cheap camera I don't plan to fix it. If
> anyone know a easy fix, I may want to try it myself.
>
> C.H.Ling
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Wayne Culberson" <waynecul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > Sorry, try this one. Wayne
> >
> > http://personal.nbnet.nb.ca/waynecul/winterwhite.jpg
You're probably right. But it seems odd as all the slides do not show the
problem. Maybe it is just at certain shutter speeds?
Wayne
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