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[photo-3d] Viewmaster strange light leak (was TDC Vivid reflection problem)


  • From: Paul Talbot <list_post@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: [photo-3d] Viewmaster strange light leak (was TDC Vivid reflection problem)
  • Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 00:58:23 -0600

Eddie Bowers wrote:

> As to the cause, i'm not really sure. I'm very familiar with the internal
> workings of the View-Master camera now (can take one apart and put it back
> together, and it works!), but it's still mostly a mystery. All I can think
> is that the shutter slightly opens when cocking during an aggressive film
> advance.

Could this hypothesis be tested by advancing aggressively with
the camera back open?  If the camera requires film to be present
to advance agressively, you might have to do it with clear film.

Paul Talbot