Re: Fact or fiction

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

On  1 May 99 at 22:28, Per Volledal wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> I'm gonna use a plastic Nikon body with Kodak HIE. Is it really true that
> the dx window on the back or a non-metal body will fog the film?? I have
> heard different opinions on this, and have always used an old metal camera
> in the past.

Fiction, unless the foam around that window has deteriorated badly.
I have shot with several cameras that hat a) a plastic back and b) a 
film window, and none ever leaked the slightest bit of IR.
Even Russian plastic doesn't leak IR, as is proven on my Horizon 202.

The origin of this IR urban myth is quite simple: frame-counting 
windows on 120-format cameras....the ones that would even fog 220 
format! (because 220 doesn't have a paper backing).

I know this 'warning' might still be in the IR-FAQ, written by David 
Rosen, but even he confirmed to me that he only did so out of 
precaution, without actual evidence of the contrary. And that is how 
most people come across this idiosyncrasy.... 


--                 
Bye,

Willem-Jan Markerink


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


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