Re: [Leica] Trip Report

["Dan Post" <dpost@triad.rr.com>]

Tina-
Glad you are back! And safely, too!
If the fog is on the 'front' end- that is the end that loads first, I would
imagine that the lips of the casstte were not tight agains the T-Max film. I
believe it has a thinner Estar base- that is a polyester base that is quite
thin compared to, say, Tri-X, and that if you loaded or unwrapped the film
in the tropical sun- even in the shade- there might have been enough light
let in, or 'piped' in to fog the film. Also- winding the film all the way
into the cassette might have left an opening sufficient for enough light to
get in and fog the film- fogging is cumulative, and so it could have gotten
more and more exposure everytime the film was brought into the light!
I know it's foolish to tell a pro like you what to do, but when I unload the
film, I stick it back into the can- the black ones!
Cheers,

Dan
- ----- Original Message -----
From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net>
To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>
Sent: Sunday, June 25, 2000 8:35 AM
Subject: [Leica] Trip Report


> Hi, LUGnuts -
>
> I'm back.  It was a long, tiring, but very good trip.  One week in
Honduras
> staying with rural families, one week in a village on the border with El
> Salvador with the medical brigade and one week traveling around Guatemala
> with the medical brigade.
>
> We met with Nancy McGirr and delivered all of your gifts at the project
> headquarters a few blocks from the dump in Guatemala City.  She was very
> appreciative of everything and plans to take photos of the kids using your
> gifts to post to the list.  I never got a chance to get to the dump for
> photos.  The clinic that we offered at Nancy's center was swamped with
> patients all day and I was busy translating.  I did get a few photos of
the
> doctors at work which I will post when I get a chance.
>
> I've been developing film since Thursday and ran across a problem I wonder
> if any of you have seen.  Several of the rolls of film are fogged  at the
> end of the roll - about 5 or 6 photos progressively fogged to the end of
> the strip.  I thought at first that I might have a light leak in one of my
> M6's, but then I noticed that it was only the TMax 400 that was
> fogged.  The TriX is fine and so are the TMax 100, TMax 3200 and Neopan
> 1600.  They were all purchased from B&H, all fresh, and all developed in
my
> Jobo.  Anybody got any clue as to what might cause this?
>
> It's great to be back, but I'm leaving a week today for a photo workshop
in
> Santa Fe.  Any LUGgers out that way?
>
> Leically,
>
> Tina
> Tina Manley, ASMP
> http://www.tinamanley.com
>