Re[2]: results from my pressure plate experiments

["tony cekolin"<tcekolin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

     The paper backing worked great! thanks - tony


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Subject: Re: results from my pressure plate experiments
Author:  <infrared@xxxxx> at Internet-Mail
Date:    7/30/97 6:15 PM


On 30 Jul 97 at 8:26, tony cekolin wrote:
     
> 
>      Hi everyone,
>      
>      I have been fighting with this pressure plate issue on my Pentax 
>      K-1000. The shadows from the dimples make my models look like they 
>      have chicken pox.
>      
>      I came up with an idea and gave it a whirl. I have been shooting in 
>      the dark using a couple of sheets of e-6 material in my flash filter 
>      slot and that works pretty well ( thanks Mr. Davidhazy ). So I thought 
>      up putting a piece of it between the film and the pressure plate. I 
>      taped it to the camera just out side the film rails on one side so 
>      that it is a flap setup and then load my film and shoot away. 
>      
>      That seems to have reduced the dimpling by about 95-99 per cent. I 
>      seem to get more dimpling from shiny backgrounds than duller ones, but 
>      even still I only have a hand full of dark spots instead of chicken 
>      pox. 
     
Why not use the backing paper of 120/220 film?
Non-exposed & developed E-6 still transmits IR, backing paper does 
not (the reason why HIE doesn't exist in 120/220 has more to do with 
the sealing on top and bottom of the spool).
     
     
     
- -- 
Bye,
     
Willem-Jan Markerink
     
     
      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand
     
     
<w.j.markerink@xxxxx>
[note: 'a-one' & 'en-el'!]
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