{"id":1021,"date":"2015-02-28T19:35:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T03:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/?p=1021"},"modified":"2020-04-10T00:36:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T08:36:50","slug":"images-from-my-1936-leica-iiia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/images-from-my-1936-leica-iiia\/","title":{"rendered":"Images from my 1936 Leica IIIa"},"content":{"rendered":"

After completing the service, cleaning, repair, adjustment<\/a> on the 1936 Leica IIIa, I shot a test roll to see if everything was working as it should. There are a lot of things that can be wrong on an 80 year old camera. A test roll can show if the film is advancing correctly, getting the proper space between images on the negative, shutter speeds are correct, the rangefinder and lens are in good sync so the images come out good and clear. etc…<\/p>\n

The first test roll showed that the shutter \u00a0was at the right speed but on the faster speeds, it was not adjusted correctly. The second or “closing” curtain was catching up with the first curtain part way across the film area.<\/p>\n

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The dark area on the right means the closing curtain caught up with the opening curtain, and is called ‘capping’ Here at 1\/500 speed it is about 75 % at 1\/1000 it was almost 100%<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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at 1\/200 speed there is slight capping<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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On this type of camera, there are two curtains that act as the shutter. First the opening curtain starts it’s travel then, depending on the shutter speed you choose, the closing curtain starts it’s travel. On this model, at 1\/20 of a second \u00a0the opening curtain has exposed the entire film area before the closing curtain starts it’s travel. At 1\/500, it only gets about 1\/8th of an inch before the closing curtain starts it’s travel. They travel together at 1\/8″ across the entire film area. No matter what speed you set it, the curtains physically travel at the same speed, (about 1\/20th sec.) it’s the size of the opening that determines the shutter speed. At 1\/1000 shutter speed, the opening is about 1\/16th of an inch, 1\/200 about 3\/16ths and so on.<\/p>\n

So you can see, the curtains have to be adjusted so they travel at the same speed. After the first test roll, I had to take the camera apart again so I could see the shutter at work. (this camera and many others like it doesn’t have the back open to put in the film, you load it from the bottom so you can’t see the shutter working unless you take the outer shell off)\u00a0I was able to tension the curtains so that the closing curtain wasn’t catching up with the opening curtain.<\/p>\n

\"Old<\/a>\u00a0\"Shady<\/a><\/p>\n

\"McCully<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\"Beekman<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Lithia<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\"Pioneer<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\"quiet<\/a><\/p>\n

\"Shakespeare<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\"Old<\/a><\/p>\n

It’s very rewarding to take an instrument almost 80 years old and repair it and know it’s good for at least another 10-20 years before it will need to be cleaned and adjusted again.<\/p>\n

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After completing the service, cleaning, repair, adjustment on the 1936 Leica IIIa, I shot a test roll to see if everything was working as it should. There are a lot of things that can be wrong on an 80 year old camera. A test roll can show if the film is advancing correctly, getting the … Continue reading Images from my 1936 Leica IIIa<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,8,112],"tags":[152,151,143,127],"class_list":["post-1021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-camera-repair","category-travel","category-vintage-cameras","tag-iiia","tag-leica","tag-rangefinder","tag-shutter-repair"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1402,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021\/revisions\/1402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tunnel13.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}