At 12:50 PM 4/25/1998 -0500, you wrote:
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Joel Wilcox <jowilcox@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Date: Friday, April 24, 1998 11:28 PM
>Subject: [OM] OM-2S Problem: Can You Help Me?
>
>
>>Dear Olympus Shooters:
>>
>>I have some shots from a recent shoot with odd, half-moon like distortions
>>coming out of the camera-top border of the shots. If you want to see, go
>to
>>
>
>Don't forget that this would be the camera bottom if this took place behind
>the lens. I hope that you didn't have many shots of your trip messed up by
>this. John H. has one probable cause, but it should happen with other lens
>combos. Otherwise, it could be some type of strange flare or reflection from
>the particular combination. I used to buy lots of used cameras, and I came
>up with some real strange shutter problems with cloth shutters. The most
>baffling of all was an SRT-202 that put vertical black bars of varying
>widths across the film. There was little pattern to the number, width or
>location of the bars.
>
>As I discussed with you privately, some films do not properly render the
>colors of the ground in west Texas. If memory serves me right, the gray
>coloring of the rocks at the bottom of the top picture is what I didn't like
>about some films.
>
>Doug
>
Hi Doug,
Would it be "bottom" if the trouble were on the rear of the lens itself? On
this particular lens (35-70 f3.5-4.5) I have what I believe is a bit of
fungus on the rear element in a half-moon ring towards what would be the
bottom edge of the element. Since this had not seemed to be a problem in
the past, I didn't worry about it. Do you suppose that some strange
combination of lens fungus and polarizer causes a weird flare of this kind?
(I may have to try John H's Pond's Cold Cream remedy after all.)
If anybody else is still interested, the site is
http://www.uiowa.edu/~uaactr/polterimage.htm
Thanks,
Joel
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