P3D Re: FED Stereo light leaks

[Steve Berezin <sbere@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Phil Spooner wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Has anybody any advice on FED light leaks please. I had my FED repaired
> by Swains (UK) last year (jammed back and much worse light leaks) and
> the test film they sent back with the camera showed no leak problems.
> However, two films I just took on holiday both show problems.
> 
> I did wonder if the problems I am seeing are down to lens flare, but I
> suspect not for these reasons: the problem is a diagonal light mark at
> the bottom centre of the frame and this extends into the black film
> edge; the mark frequently occurs on two adjacent frames (i.e. two
> different shots); the direction of the diagonal mark is always the
> same.
> 
> As many as a quarter of the frames on a film are ruined by this
> diagonal mark. Often only one of a pair are affected so I've salvaged
> some mono frames with some 2x2 slide mounts, but I'm losing a lot of my
> stereo shots. Does anybody have any advice on how to track down this
> problem please?
> 
> - Phil -
> - phils@xxxxxxxxx -

Phil, take a look at the web page:

http://www.pauck.de/marco/photo/stereo/fed_stereo/fed_stereo.html

This has some remedies for several Fed light leak problems.  

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