RE: Fuji better than Linhof? Not!? Final thoughts?.........

[Willem-Jan Markerink <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

On 27 Mar 99 at 0:23, Jim Dunn wrote:

> I was reading an article recently about a company that makes 6x9 cameras who
> where unwilling to make a wider body because they could not get film plane
> flatness to a level they where happy with ........ could this be something
> to do with the difference between the Fuji and Linhof cameras???....... and
> not the lenses.

I recently added a more general note about film flatness problems to 
my homepage....quite interesting story, from a repairman:

http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/mainpage.htm
 
> I have an occasional recurring problem with my ArtPanorama..... the right
> hand edge of the transparency ..... about 3 to 5cm in from the edge is often
> soft, softish or very soft..... a recent film had a what appeared to be a
> double exposure of "only" this area..... Any ideas on what is causing it and
> how to fix it............The ArtPan loads on the right and takes up on the
> left.

Is 'left' and 'right' corrected for the fact that what sits left in 
the camera shows on the right in the final image?
Can you rule out that the film has been sitting some time before the 
next exposure, and has formed a curl, which doesn't immediately go 
away?
For my Mamiya RB 70mm back, this problem is even mentioned in the 
manual, and for which it even offers a vacuum system....

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Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand


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