From: Bill Brand (email suppressed)
Date: Sun Jul 19 2009 - 12:54:04 PDT
A common sources of light leaks on the Bolex Rex 5 is keeping the eye
piece open in bright light when you're not looking through the camera.
Another possibility is a missing screw on the lens turret base.
Check below where the filter holder goes. There should be two little
silver screws. If you've just got screw holes, then cover them with
black tape.
Bill
>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.
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>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/
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>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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