Film pressure plate in a Rolleiflex TLR

Hi, This weekend I picked up a nice Rolleiflex 3.5F camera with

Planar lens and immediately loaded it with a film to try it out. I

have to drop off the roll during luch time today and obviously I will

not see the results before a couple of days. The problem is : when I

runloaded the finished film I noticed that the film pressure plate

was in the 24x36 position instead of 6x6cm! Yes, it is stupid but I

am new to this and I was nervous and hurried to shoot my first roll

with this beauty... Do you think this will have a visible negative

effect on the sharpness of the images?

Thank you for you input and good light to you!

I have never tested it but I don't think you will see any effects on your negs. The plate is only a few mm outside the perfect position. The pressure is the same.

Could be a bit unsharp in the middle. The pressure should have been slightly stronger with this setting (135 film is thinner than 120+paper backing). Depends on what aperture you used; at f/8 or higher depth of focus should cover the errors easily.

f/8 or smaller aperture, i mean.

Thank you guys. Fortunately I was at f8 and f11 all the time, so I should be OK then.

Csab, why in the middle??? You move the plate towards the bottom of the camera. If the negs become a bit unsharp then at the top.

Richard: i was referring to the problem of slightly higher pressure applied by the pressure plate; this might make the large 120-type negative to "pop" in the middle, inwards, having thus the edges kept in the correct focal plane, while the middle region is too close to the lens.

 

I don't know if it could happen though, if the film is tight on the spools and between.