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Svend, until I bought a camera without the red in the red window I would have been one of those who said never, but since I bought an old ensign 645 camera that had the red window removed, and no sign of a light leak, I am happy yo say I was wrong, I now hyave several of my red window cameras without the red, and all perform perfectly with no light leak getting to the film, all nice and clear, and thinking about, when a lot of these cameras were made film was mainly ortho, so not sensitive to all colours, whereas pan film is sensitive to all colors, and would show fogging if the shield was normally left open, as I often did, and never had a light leak yet,
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Hi Richard - that's really good to know. At the present time I have a couple of Agfa red window folders, and they are both fine with Ilford and Kodak films, at least in good light. For darker areas I have the little lighted magnifier to aid me, and that works great. But I just bought a lovely Zeiss Mess-Ikonta 6x9 with a window that seems awfully dark, so I am skeptical that it will work well. I just got it back from a CLA, so will try it this weekend.
BTW, the camera in question which prompted me to start that earlier thread was a Franka, which I have since sold for reasons other than the red window frustration (great camera with a terrific lens, but too many annoyances to allow me to keep it). FWIW - that Franka did give me badly fogged film when I was dumb enough to leave the window slider open in bright sun, confirming your point that the red window offers no protection to modern pan films.
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In other news, the mirror is going off for resilvering today |
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/362936006...AAAOSwZbpfcXiM I'm popping out, but will have a better search later as most items on Amazon can be found a lot cheaper with a bit of a look. Terry S |
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Good one Pete. Toothpaste scrub is a great idea. I will have to try that. Just a word of warning not to ever use a solvent on the plastic film - I made that mistake once and it blistered the plastic. Luckily it only affected a small corner of the window before I noticed it and stopped. Can't recall what solvent it was, but clearly it was pretty aggressive stuff. And great news on the mirror. Thank Ian Grant for that lead.
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Toothpaste is a good "scrub", gentler than kitchen cream cleansers. I got a free tube of an unknown brand with a toothbrush once, tasted vile but cleaned the bath taps fine.
For photographic bits I often use meths on a cotton bud to clean fiddly bits. |
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https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/284678077...cAAOSwj6ViH4f4 This link looks very similar to the original post: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224762967...wAAOSwIpRhytpd https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/311821137...AAAOSwTM5Yw9lX And I'm sure there are many more. I used the two words, 'LED magnifier' in the search box. Terry S |
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Good one Terry - thanks for finding those. Great prices. I am going to look on this side of the pond for a similar deal - I wouldn't mind having a second one of those so I can keep one in each backpack.
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I don't know why, but I was rethinking about this link and the magnifiers mentioned.
I suddenly thought, you need one hand to hold the camera, one hand to hold a magnifier, and then, oh, wheres the third hand to roll the film on to look at the numbers in the red window?... Terry S |
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