This was a very popular thing to do in my "War" days (early 70's Central
Africa) . I had all my cameras notched. It identified which body but
also who owned the negatives because when there was a lot of stuff going
on, there'd be runners and they all went into the newspaper darkroom
together. They were also bulk-loaded by the paper and there may be 3 or
4 photographers each with a couple of bodies photographing the same
riot. It also looked cool when you printed the whole frame (We used to
file out the enlarger neg carriers so that there'd be a black line round
the image). (Leica Ms and Hasselblad 220 backs)
You need to take care not to get filings in the shutter tracks stuff
something in there first and take care when you pull it out... or get a
technician to do it
Herschel
On 3/29/11 7:22 PM, ADavidhazy wrote:
A friend of mine who returned safe and sound from Egypt after doing some free lance photography for a Cairo newspaper during a couple of demonstrations ... escorted by "minders") were discussing how to identify film (novel thought that!) that was exposed (or will be exposed) in one of two or more camera bodies. Assuming that later one would want to know this, for example, to detect a defect in a particular body later on.
Case in point, one of the MPs generated vertical and sometimes diagonal over-exposure "bands" on a couple rolls of film.
My suggestion was to file a small (very small) "notch" in the focal frame of the cameras all in different locations. I guess if one only has 2 camera bodies (like 2 Leica MPs) one would "notch" just one of them. Might a camera repair shop or Leica service do this? Have you heard of anyone doing something like this?? Is this "something" or "nothing"??
Commentary?
Andy from Rochester
