If this is the cause, ... why is it not widely known?
If it is the cause, it may not have hit the news because a lot of people would simply crop away the image margins. The FG viewfinder only shows about 92% of what the film records, to allow for the overlap of transparency mounts. (Some film SLRs were even less inclusive; and please don't start the guys going on RF viewfinders...!) So in many cases the margins would not be a critical loss, creatively-speaking.
Excuse me, but "Sir" is for old men and none of us is them.
Is that blacking normal Matt? I have several cameras here, and they all have shiny film guides.
Get some flat black enamel, or even a black Sharpie (comes off with alcohol), and see what happens. Take a few test shots of the sky and maybe a naked lightbulb against a black surface (our outside at night).
Might also want to try standard 5 inversions/30 seconds agitation. I've never figured out the appeal of minimal agitation except that it lets you watch Better Call Saul while the film develops.
The problem isn't with the film guides behind the shutter. I think it is a problem with the vertical shiny strip inside the mirror box, in front of the shutter - the area I illustrated in my earlier post.
Is it normally blacked in all FGs? What are the chances mine just didn't have it out of the hundreds of thousands?
Obviously a reflection issue. I've had the same thing happen with some Saunders paper easels where the sides holding the paper down reflected extra light onto the paper -- and did the same thing to the print.
I have a hard time "digesting" how Nikon would make cameras with this obvious problem. Bad QC? Some black matte paint should solve the problem.
We really require all other owners of this camera to check the part that matt mentions to see if they have the same reflective edge, don't we?
If this reflective edge is the problem and all of this particular camera left the Nikon production line with this edge then many 1000s or indeed all of this kind of camera would cause this problem.
Difficult to believe that Nikon built this problem into its camera and if it did so inadvertently why this would not have received a lot of bad publicity. So it suggests that maybe your camera has acquired the reflective edge that appears to have caused the issue, hence my opening line above.
Alternatively an experienced Nikon service engineer, should you know of one, might be able to help diagnostically.
pentaxuser
We really require all other owners of this camera to check the part that matt mentions to see if they have the same reflective edge, don't we?
If this reflective edge is the problem and all of this particular camera left the Nikon production line with this edge then many 1000s or indeed all of this kind of camera would cause this problem.
pentaxuser
What?!? Did I hear the impending threat of a CLA or tune up in the wind?
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