maco ir

[phil <filje@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

OK , the sun came out, there were some clouds and the clip test is done.
The every other frame on the first 8 (the whole clip) has a light
strike, most noticable in the later frames around the sprocket holes.
After reading earlier posts, I opened my tin can in the dark
and removed the film cassettes from their canisters and put them into
KODAK IR canisters. I took an empty  maco film canister and put it over
a handicam lens in nightshot mode with a 100 watt tungsten bulb right by
it and could see no light transmission.
I loaded my film into and out of the camera in the dark. An all metal
camera with titanium shutter and no ir transport sensors. 
Yet I still got light leak streaks.
The film leader tongue is very black. This means that the people at
Maco put the film cassettes into the canisters in room light.
So , in order to save yourself some anguish over that ruined
once in a lifetime shot, I recommend that you either shoot 2 frames
of everything for the first 8 -10 frames or you cut off the first
15 inches of each roll (In the dark of course).

phil

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