Joseph O'Neil
29-Apr-2006, 11:00
I found after some processing today, that some of my sheets fo film (4x5) had a light leak on one side only - very similar, but not exactly the same as posted here last month on this thread:
http://largeformatphotography.info/lfforum/topic/505482.html
Last year in Toronto at the used camera show, I bought four boxes of used, Lisco Regal II film holders - very clean, in orignal box. A causual look over revealed no problems i could see. Average price of $10 Cdn per holder, and about three, maybe four different dealers where selling them. Looked like surplus from a University or such as all of them ahd a number engraved on them.
I did not use them for a while, but when I did load them up and use them, the light leaks appeared. to make a long story short, inspecting them closely, one of them seperated / split in part - two halves, front and back - in my hand. Exampinign them all, very closely, using my loupe, I could see every one of them has this seperation. All of the seperations start or at the "top" - the part where the dark slide goes in.
Anyhow, this is just more of an FYI in case any of you buy some of these film holders, or did buy any (there are/were in red boxes), even though this was a year ago, keep your eyes open.
I plan to see if they can be repaired - perhaps some superglue and a clamp, or has anybody else had this before, and can reccomend a good glue? Something that will not run down too deep into the holder itself.
These film holders are different form my older holders in that each side has three "rivets" on the outer edge, six in total. Looks like that's how they were originally manufactuered - put two halves together and rivet them. However, in this case, the riviets were not tight enough, there's a tiny bit of seperation.
One more thing - *none* of these film holders have any name/label on them, although all of them were in brand new Lisco Regal II film boxes, and these holders while they look pretty new, do not look like any of my older Riteway or Lisco film holders. Ah well, hindsight is always perfect, eh?
joe
http://largeformatphotography.info/lfforum/topic/505482.html
Last year in Toronto at the used camera show, I bought four boxes of used, Lisco Regal II film holders - very clean, in orignal box. A causual look over revealed no problems i could see. Average price of $10 Cdn per holder, and about three, maybe four different dealers where selling them. Looked like surplus from a University or such as all of them ahd a number engraved on them.
I did not use them for a while, but when I did load them up and use them, the light leaks appeared. to make a long story short, inspecting them closely, one of them seperated / split in part - two halves, front and back - in my hand. Exampinign them all, very closely, using my loupe, I could see every one of them has this seperation. All of the seperations start or at the "top" - the part where the dark slide goes in.
Anyhow, this is just more of an FYI in case any of you buy some of these film holders, or did buy any (there are/were in red boxes), even though this was a year ago, keep your eyes open.
I plan to see if they can be repaired - perhaps some superglue and a clamp, or has anybody else had this before, and can reccomend a good glue? Something that will not run down too deep into the holder itself.
These film holders are different form my older holders in that each side has three "rivets" on the outer edge, six in total. Looks like that's how they were originally manufactuered - put two halves together and rivet them. However, in this case, the riviets were not tight enough, there's a tiny bit of seperation.
One more thing - *none* of these film holders have any name/label on them, although all of them were in brand new Lisco Regal II film boxes, and these holders while they look pretty new, do not look like any of my older Riteway or Lisco film holders. Ah well, hindsight is always perfect, eh?
joe