Dan Scott wrote:
> What could be causing a black band to run down one of the long
> sides of the print?
Hi Dan,
Do the shutter curtains on this body run vertically? Looks a lot like flash
pictures that were taken at a shutter speed faster than the X-sync (assuming
your problem shots were taken with flash -- maybe a bad assumption??). Try
dry-firing the thing with the back off and no film in the camera, while
pointing at a nice flat white wall. Does the entire area of the focal plane
appear evenly illuminated to your eye, or are some of the shots funny
looking? Now try dry-firing again, but this time with a flash in place and
the shutter speed on X-sync (whatever it is for the ME Super -- 1/100 or
1/125 or whatever). How do these same shots look now? Evenly illuminated
or funny looking? Does it appear that your X-sync speed is really
synchronized with the flash?
Hope this helps. Good luck!
Bill Peifer
Rochester, NY
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