From: Tony Conrad (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Jul 19 2009 - 12:02:01 PDT
Is bright light entering the camera through the reflex viewfinder?
> 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/ [5]
> 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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> [3] http://artcinematic.blogspot.com/
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> [5] http://www.flickr.com/photos/veronicaibarrafilms/3726543106/
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