Re: Nikon Cameras

["Willem-Jan Markerink" <w.j.markerink@xxxxx>]

On 25 Jun 98 at 9:20, Msfoto@xxxxxxx wrote:

> if you have a "film window" cover it --it may be leaking light. I fold foil
> and tape it over the window with electrical tape. 

But has your camera *proven* to leak light?
Please don't promote this kind of unnecessary precautions....IR 
photography is plagued enough with false rumours and 
myths....;-))
I have *yet* to hear the first piece of hard evidence that a 35mm 
camera leaks light that way. There are several camera-specific IR 
problems like pressure plates and IR-LED film counters, but film 
windows don't belong in this line, and neither do plastic 
bodies/backs.
What you and most other people are confused with is probably the fact 
that 120-format cameras have a film *counter* window on the 
back....and that one even leaks light with 220 film (no paper 
backing).
Ruling out possible causes is one thing, but sticking with them 
without evidence is unnecessarily confusing for other people.

Your Nikon really doesn't leak light that way....;-))


- -- 
Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


      The desire to understand 
is sometimes far less intelligent than
     the inability to understand


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