I think it's a loose shutter string such that the shutter curtain is
cocked at an angle. It causes the leading edge of the shutter curtain
to scatter the photons at an angle and mis-aligns the whole image :-)
Chuck Norcutt
John Hermanson wrote:
> I've never seen it, but could the aperture cast into body actually not be
> square with the path of the film?
>
> John Hermanson
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "AG Schnozz" <agschnozz@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 2:21 PM
> Subject: [OM] Re: WTB: grid screen, 1-14, Grip 1, Eyecup 2
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>
>>>Back from holiday and reviewing my pix. Long story short -
>>>too many tilts! I better get a grid screen.
>>
>>Just a thought here, but you might want to look at the negs. One
>>of my cameras has a very strange alignment problem where the
>>film frames are off in alignment by 1 millimeter. The frame is
>>actually rotated on the film slightly.
>>
>>CLA's and careful inspection have never found the cause. I just
>>chalk it up to around 80-100,000 exposures. Not really worth
>>worrying about at this point. I guess I can blame it on the
>>fact it's an OM-2S as they're not supposed to last past five
>>rolls of film.
>>
>>AG
>>
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