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RE: [OM] Light leak?

Subject: RE: [OM] Light leak?
From: mike blayney <mikeblayney@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 05:41:26 -0800 (PST)
Thanks but the fogging is not outside the negative 36x24 frame - so must be
coming through the front?

Mike.
--- Hans van Veluwen <HVeluwen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> :Using an OM40(PC), on some prints I'm getting a red cast, 
> :always on the left
> :covering 10% to 200f the print. It is strongest on the left 
> :and fades towards
> :the centre and is fairly even top to bottom. Might this be a 
> :leak through the
> :shutter slit when cocked or during cocking (if my brain's 
> :together, left on the
> :print would be the film take up end of the negative)? If so, 
> :is there a cure?
> 
> Check the foam in the camera back, on the camera where the back closes, and
> near the film cannister window (!) for rot. If it's rotten it must be
> replaced. This is not difficult. Replacement foam (light baffles) can be
> bought at:
> 
> http://www.micro-tools.com/restore.htm
> 
> 
> hnz
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Mike Blayney, Devon, UK.

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