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Risked life and limb to get this shot and the $7000 piece of crap let me down again

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The arbitration and the chronographs didn’t look great in colour so I said %^%$ it lets make it B&W………….I hope you like it

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Send the crap in for servicing / repair.

My M240 + Nocti combo does not have this problem. And yours shouldn't either.

No need ........still waiting for sisoje to send me the mailing address:D
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StephenPatterson

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I would think, if in bright sunlight, and requiring motion blur and wanting the shallow depth of field of f1, the 10 stop would be ideal i.e. 1/30@f1 (assuming 1/125@f16 without the filter).

Pete

 

I understand Pete, but it looks to me as if this scene did not need f/1 or anything near it, but rather just to drag the shutter 1/30th or longer to blur the water.

 

Cheers,

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MirekE

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I don't have a Noctilux, but I made a few inadvertent 60s exposures with lens cap on with various lenses and never had any leak - the exposures are perfectly and uniformly black. This kind of veil looks like a lens or filter induced glare that I get if I shoot indoors against bright windows.

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I like the B&W but hell I feel your pain. I get rubbish light leaks from a Zeiss lens I use on my M9 - PITA.

 

I don't have to think about using a velvet hair band on a Canon for a fraction of the price, why should we have to for Leica prices?

Bill that's my whole point

I could accept it if I was say screwing a Nikon lens on a Leica body but screwing on a Leica lens to a Leica body and having this BS going on is crap.

Will use the Leica for taking snap shots and stick to Nikon for everything else:mad:

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hoppyman

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A Google search for light leaks with long exposures shows a number of reports (possibly different causes????) with other 'piece of crap' cameras like the D800 for example ;) Might be worth looking at if you haven't already? Before you risk life and limb again.

I loved the BW conversion shot you salvaged from that problem frame though. Really nice work.

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Thank you, I must have missed this.

Same here.

 

Once someone has pointed this effect out and one stops to think about this, it seems obvious that two metal reflective surfaces (the flanges) will of course have small gaps (at a scale of say 0.001 mm or less), and that will almost certainly result in at least a small degree of light leakage. It seems that most lens/flange designs make no attempt at a light seal, presumably since the leaks are so small as to be inconsequential in most cases. Somewhat reminiscent of the minor (inconsequential) light leaks in darkrooms.

 

I had assumed that the small black rubber "skirt" on the flange of Canon "L" lenses was there for weather-sealing, but perhaps it also thwarts such light leaks.

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While in Bali, I turned left when all the tourists turned right. To my wife's horror I climbed down a rock face, crossed some rapids to get a shot of a waterfall that was tucked away out of sight.

Set the M up on the tripod with my Noctilux and a 10 stop ND filter and shot away, in the mean time the tide was coming in fast and I just got out in time.

 

For me, the thread title plus the above post plus the resulting photo (with or without a light leak) say everything that needs to be said.

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A small dab of Bentonite around the flange will seal out the light leaks.

 

I called the Leica store in Mayfair London but they are currently out of stock of bentonite but have just received a new shipment of black hair bands.:D

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rgacpa

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NDs are well known to require "black tape" (gaffers tape works) around the filter mount. My guess is it's not the lens mount, but the interface between the filter and the front of the lens...

The Lee big stopper comes with foam glued to its edges for just that reason..

In my experience...

Bob

 

 

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