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Subject: Re: [OM] radioactive camera lenses
From: andrew fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 19:53:01 +1100
>11/11/01 11:56:33 PM, andrew fildes <afildes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>I'd be surprised - the level is super-low and the focal plane shutter in an
>>SLR would be enough to protect the film. You've probably got rear elements
>>exposed to the film full time in your case but the effect should be
>>localised. For instance, one frame exposed and banding in the other frames.
>>I'd suspect the bellows first - as in very small pinholes.
>                                                        ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>Aren't pinholes by definition, uhm, very small?
>
>
>/A/S

OK, OK. Bloody pedants! Holes so small that they could only have been made
by the point of a very, very, small pin and the  light therefrom only
registered by lengthy exposure. (I have had some very large pins). Test by
loading a cheap, fastish B&W film and leaving the camera in the sunshine
for a while, or flashing the bellows, and developing the 'unexposed' film
to reveal any fogging.
AndrewF



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