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[OM] Re: om4ti problem?

Subject: [OM] Re: om4ti problem?
From: jking@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 2005 15:10:16 +0100 (BST)
>
> Assuming that the exposures were all at speeds > 1/60 sec, James, I can
> only
> suggest that, logically, you must have an uneven timing problem with the
> first shutter curtain, which is being "caught up" by the second curtain
> for
> an instant, causing the exposure slit to close, before resuming its
> trajectory (on the XP2, vice versa on the Provia).  That would explain why
> exposures at speeds < 1/60 sec were OK - the second curtain doesn't start
> until the first has already reached destination.
>
> Whether that is mechanically possible (let alone likely) is, I regret, an
> entirely different question - and beyond me.  But I doubt that it will be
> difficult to put right.
>
I feared a timing or curtain problem may be the cause since  any damage to
the curtain would have showed up on more shoots and a light leak would
have too.





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