[original EOS list, CC'd to IR-list]
On 1 Jun 01 at 10:37, Neil K. wrote:
> At 1:24 PM -0400 6/1/01, Henry Posner/B&H Photo-Video wrote:
>
> (table omitted)
>
> Thanks! I'm familiar with that table. However, there are a number of
> specific cases it doesn't answer, such as the date back problem. So I
> thought it'd be useful to get feedback from actual users of these
> cameras if possible.
The date-back [*] issue can be cured easily, by taping some
120/220-format backing paper to the pressure plate.
However: with that solution you cut down all back-reflection from
the pressure plate, back onto the film ....and this back-reflection
is one of the reasons you get such nice halo's (glow around
highlights (applies only to Kodak HIE btw)).
And of course, the same back-reflection is the very reason these
date/databacks cause problems in the first place: they reflect less
at the cut-out openings, which creates shadows on the final print.
So instead, you might want to tape a piece of aluminium foil....:))
(on the other hand, there are a few cameras without pressure plate
completely, like all swing-lens panorama cameras....with the added
problem that *if* you mount an artificial pressure plate there
(curved piece of aluminium foil), you probably also cause reflections
to the sides, where the take-up spool with exposed film sits on one
side, and a piece of unexposed film on the other side....the cure
might be worse than the problem....
[*] no such thing as a datA-back with current EOS'es, and I consider
the electronic-memory on the EOS-1v as inferior to any
inbetween-frame-printing of exposure data!)
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Bye,
Willem-Jan Markerink
The desire to understand
is sometimes far less intelligent than
the inability to understand
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