Re: Bolex light leaks

From: Rev.Dinosaur (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Jul 19 2009 - 10:13:34 PDT


Hi Veronica,
        How are you processing your film? I've seen flashes like that
in footage that I've hand processed. Does this happen when you send
out to a lab, as well?

On Jul 19, 2009, at 10:37 AM, Veronica Ibarra wrote:

> Hello,
> My 16mm Bolex Rex5 light leaks like mad. I tried to solve the
> problem by taping it with black gaffer tape all around the door and
> the filter area (I have the filter holder inserted all the time). I
> also taped around the top part. No success.
>
> What I get is random black areas in the negative. All across the
> frame, or some frames and then the fogging gets more faint till it
> dissapears. Sometimes it is only on the edge, but normally is all
> across frames. Maybe there is one foot without fogging and then
> again every few frames... It seems quite ramdom to me. No light leak
> pattern.
> you can see some footage here:
> http://www.flickr.com/photos/veronicaibarrafilms/3726543106/
>
> I am going to do some testing. Taping different areas to find out
> where the light gets in, I thought that before doing that I could
> ask here about where is most likely to light leak or anything else
> that can be helpful.
>
> Could any of you frameworkers help me please?
>
>
> Much obliged
>
> Veronica
>
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