stvn66 Posted January 22 Share #1 Posted January 22 (edited) Advertisement (gone after registration) Hi, These images were taken indoors at a museum with a newly acquired Leica IIIb with a Summicron set at f/2 using iso 400 film, speeds were either 1/60 0r 1/40 I have never had images come out like this before and I cannot think for any reason why this has happened, the whole roll has come out the same ☹️ Has anyone else ever experienced this or offer any advice as to why this may have happened. Thank you. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Edited January 22 by stvn66 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/418759-blurry-images/?do=findComment&comment=5744497'>More sharing options...
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espelt Posted January 22 Share #2 Posted January 22 Hi, Is it a collapsible Summicron? It happened to me with my Summitar that I didn't extend and lock it properly. And then I found very similar art on the film.... 1 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stvn66 Posted January 22 Author Share #3 Posted January 22 YES, you are spot on. I have just checked and and the lens was not pulled out, a silly schoolboy error 🤪 Not my first though, I have also left a yellow filter on a lens with colour film loaded! Anyway, thank you so much, I was thinking I was looking at an expensive CLA... you have to love these forums🥇 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
espelt Posted January 22 Share #4 Posted January 22 It was a pleasure! It happens all the time. Especially when you're out and about with other lenses and cameras a lot, you sometimes forget - the lens cap - to focus manually (the other camera just does it itself) - to get the lens out of the way And to top it all off, I've even set off without film, firmly believing that there was still some in the camera.... Have fun! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_livsey Posted January 22 Share #5 Posted January 22 Add changing a battery that was half full, on an M8 they just die with little warning, for a "full" one, that was actually totally flat and not taking a spare either. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpotmaticSP Posted January 23 Share #6 Posted January 23 Don't worry! I just had a collapsible 5cm f/2 Summitar sent back to me after CLA (never used this lens before). I thought the CLA went wrong because I could not change the focus distance. Only after a few minutes it dawned upon me that the Summitar has an infinity lock. Oops! (The only other Leica lens I have is the nickel 5cm f/3.5 Elmar that was standardized, but it is the 11 o'clock version WITHOUT infinity lock, hence the mistake with the Summitar). 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc_braconi Posted January 23 Share #7 Posted January 23 Advertisement (gone after registration) How many people took the decisive moment shot....with the front cap on the lens, ? I am part of the club 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted January 24 Share #8 Posted January 24 Anybody who says hubristically 'it's never happened to me' has never had the memory of making the mistake stick in their brain, so it's only a matter of time. Mistakes are good to get out of the way early, so try to make them all during one day and all with the same film 😆 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LocalHero1953 Posted January 24 Share #9 Posted January 24 I've made most of these same mistakes, and still do. Yesterday I went out twice for shooting sessions with the SL2-S. I came home after the first and downloaded the images to my PC. Went out for the second, came home, opened the camera and.......found I had not put the first SD card back. Thank the Leica gods that the SL2-S has two SD cards. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhotoCruiser Posted January 24 Share #10 Posted January 24 Hehe, i made several of those mistakes, but mostly when diving and camera is in underwater housing as i was in hurry and as the owner i get always distracted by employees and clients. seeing the hated No Card error when already descended descending and having lens in manual but housing has no focus knob (the only seahorse i saw in 10 years and approx 3000 dives in Sardinia, i have only a yellow blurry seahorse shaped blob ) other wrong settings what limit or disable the use of the camera Obviously once descended theres nothing to do and i hate to open the housing on the boat as most likely humidity or a drop of water will enter when pulling the camera out, fix problem and remount all. What i learned is: prepare the camera and camera bag and/or housing either the evening before or get up well before people come and distract me to take some shots before i leave the house, different ones to verify that all works Chris Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TomB_tx Posted January 24 Share #11 Posted January 24 3 hours ago, PhotoCruiser said: descending and having lens in manual but housing has no focus knob That's not so bad. In the early 1960s as I descended past 100 ft. my home-made plexiglas housing imploded. I forgot I had it with me... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhotoCruiser Posted January 24 Share #12 Posted January 24 (edited) vor 1 Stunde schrieb TomB_tx: That's not so bad. In the early 1960s as I descended past 100 ft. my home-made plexiglas housing imploded. I forgot I had it with me... Oh dang! In all the thousand+ dives i did with a underwater camera i never flooded one, but some torches and a Inon Strobe because i pinched the o-ring. Same reason as i mentioned, doing all things together and getting distracted. When i did the Rebreather course i learned to get up a hour before to assemble the Rebreather when i am alone and befor any employee came as a small error could have led quickly to my death. If i get the permit to post the Nikon D800 photo from the seahorse i will post it, just funny and i used the Sigma 15mm Diagonal Fisheye and if i swam more far the angle of view was so wide thewt the poos seahorse became like 10 yellow pixels, so i decided to take a photo more near but blurred that i could testify that it was a seahorse. Underwatrer photographers are like fisherman, all is bigger and sometimes not even there 😆 Chris Edited January 24 by PhotoCruiser Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
stvn66 Posted January 25 Author Share #13 Posted January 25 I think there could be a whole post on mistakes made. It would be amusing to be a 'fly on the wall' seeing/hearing the reactionary moment we each found out what we had done😜 I must confess my own reaction was a string of expletives away from the kids. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_livsey Posted January 25 Share #14 Posted January 25 On 1/23/2025 at 11:51 PM, jc_braconi said: How many people took the decisive moment shot....with the front cap on the lens, ? I am part of the club No hope for the rest of us then !! 😇 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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