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From: "ADavidhazy" <andpph@xxxxxxx>
To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students"
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Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2011 9:22 AM
Subject: Telling what film came out of which camera
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?
Easier than notching the body, a small shaped tab of black plastic (or two)
glued into place on the film guide does the trick and can be removed later
top leave the body intact. This would create a clearly noticable
(trademark?) unexposed area on the edge of the frame. The 24mm edge would
probably be the better edge as this tends to be cropped off when making
8x10s
karl
