[HUG ] Re: old style film backs

Frame spacing is never the same throughout a whole roll. And sometimes the take-up spool brand will affect spacing. Your light leak is probably via the dark slide seals. This is easy to fix and you can get seals from sellers on eBay, from Hasselblad, or from Dick Werner (I think he still has them). 

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Jim


On Apr 4, 2008, at 8:24 PM, Ivan Shukster wrote:




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I recently purchased 4 of the old style film backs, at a good price I think. So I ran rolls of old Ektachrome through each of them. On all 4 there was a bit more spacing between the first few frames then the rest but with all 4 I 
got 12 exposures and no overlap.
Question is "is this type of spacing normal? I don't really have a concern with this aspect at this time, just curious. The bad news though was there seemed to be light leak in one of the backs. I am going to shoot another test roll just to be sure. The film was free and is tungsten so not a big lost, just the 5 bucks developing. As I paid less for all four than the cost of sending a single one in for repairs I feel pretty good. Might see about 
putting in seals myself as well, not right off though.
With the four I just bought it makes 5 backs and that is my entire 'blad system. The rest I am only borrowing but I am looking forward to my very own 500 C/M that I am purchasing from David Odess. I should never had borrowed 
the system in the first place :)

Ivan

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