Originally Posted by
jimbobuk
I just received my black jacket today.. reading its instructions it encourages you to keep it on the camera when making an exposure..
I took out the camera and had a practice fitting with it.. I have the older Shen Hao field camera, i got the 40" hybrid jacket.. I tried fitting the jacket as far to the back of the camera as possible but at first attempts was not able to get it tight enough to have no visible and obvious leaks whilst looking at the glass..
Putting the jacket much further down the camera, beyond the carry strap resulted in a much better seal.. it obviously precludes doing anything with the camera back with it fitted like this.
Its just the recommendation was that it stops any light leaks by having the focusing cloth on whilst making the exposure.. how much is this a worry?
I just got my first transparencies back, will be scanning them shortly.. but i had problems on a few of them where there is a green strip on one side of the shot... being green it seems unlikely to be a light leak as surely this would be white? it was transparencies loaded by the seller of the camera, so i have no idea whether they're expired film or whether the darkslides have leaked over a long time of being loaded.
I'll be developing more film soon, just wanted to know what the deal was with this keeping the cloth on all the time, any tips on whether and how this is possible?
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