At 09:39 PM 9/20/99 -0400, Gregg Iverson wrote:
>Has anyone ever seen what appears to be static discharge after storing
>in the refrig? I had this problem a number of years ago, but wasn't
>sure if this was the cause or because I wound the film to fast from the
>bulk loader.
Not that way. In Alberta, winters have the potential to get *really* cold (a
buddy of mine once recorded a temp of -55 Celsius in a ravine on the south side
of Edmonton), and while winding on a roll in my old OM-1n, I experienced static
discharge, which showed up in the prints as "lightning" across the images.
Can't understand how just fridge storage would do that. For one thing, you
also need really low relative humidity, and I'd assume that, if you took a bulk
loader out of the fridge to room temperature, you'd have the opposite problem
(condensation). Mind you, mebbe the triacetate base (if that's what it was)
built up a static potential with some part inside the loader...
Garth
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