From: christina battle (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Jul 19 2009 - 11:31:08 PDT
Not sure what it might be on the bolex side (although a shutter problem
sounds possible plausible) but this sounds similar to something I ran into a
while ago with film that had been fogged prior to exposure via an
x-ray...just thought I'd mention it.
cb
On 7/19/09 2:10 PM, "Myron Ort" <email suppressed> wrote:
> looks more like a mal-functioning shutter or something rather than
> simply a light leak. I have never known a bolex to be prone to light
> leaks.
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> mo
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> On Jul 19, 2009, at 7:37 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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