Re: IR-LED film counter on Hassy X-Pan

["David J. Carlyon" <david@xxxxxxx>]

>Dan, can you put a full-size scan on the web?
>Seems as if Hasselblad hasn't done a better job technically, but they 
>just avoided the unnecessary precaution that Canon, Minolta and 
>Contax apply in their manual. 

With my Minolta 500si, HIE is fogged horribly along the bottom of the negs,
well into the image area. It appears in the form of vignetting. (There are
some examples in the infrared page of my photo gallery.) I took a piece of
electrical tape, and covered about half of the IR film counter, and the
fogging still occurs on about half the sprocket holes - a negligible amount
of fogging might still occur in the image area, but it's no longer
noticable (maybe it's simply not there, or the graininess of the film
disguises it anyway). I don't think I have any scans uploaded with the
reduced fogging - maybe I'll do that later.

Hasselblad probably just minimized the fogging, by maybe making the thing
smaller, or positioning it further from the image area.

David
http://scc.net/~david/Photography/

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