Hello all,

I recently returned from a vacation in Mexico where I shot the TL120.
In several of the slides there are pinkish areas, possibly indicating
a light leak? I know that the back of the camera was securely closed.
And when not in use it was in the camera bag. I am wondering if anyone
else has had this occur? Or if you can help me determine what is
happening? Your help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!

dorothy mladenka

ddd_dorothy wrote:

> I recently returned from a vacation in Mexico where I shot the
> TL120. In several of the slides there are pinkish areas,
> possibly indicating a light leak? I know that the back of the
> camera was securely closed. And when not in use it was in the
> camera bag. I am wondering if anyone else has had this occur?
> Or if you can help me determine what is happening? Your help
> is greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Back in October of '06 I mentioned some red streaks in a couple
of my images:
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/MF3D-group/message/136

I attributed it to light leaking through the advance window.
Do your leaks look anything like the samples I provided?

http://www.alaska.net/~thurston/images/Scan000836_straightfromthecamera.jpg
- or -
http://tinyurl.com/j2mv5

and at
http://www.alaska.net/~thurston/images/Scan000836_detail.jpg
- or -
http://tinyurl.com/g6sja

John Thurston
Juneau, Alaska

I've had that happen to me also. I discovered two causes for this occurrence. One is definitive the other is speculative. First, I had noticed that the last image (sometimes 1.5 images) were destroyed by stray light. The cause was eliminated when I kept the back window closed while winding the last of the film to the other spool. The other cause that I think has lead to some apparent leak on a few images mid-roll happened while I was in the bright sun. The sun was shining across both lenses as I was shooting facing north at around 4:30 PST so the sun was to my left side. The shutter speed was at lower setting and I believe that some light may have over exposed the outer edge of one of the images. I'm not sure that this was the cause it's just the best scenario I could come with......

ddd_dorothy wrote:

Hello all,

I recently returned from a vacation in Mexico where I shot the TL120.
In several of the slides there are pinkish areas, possibly indicating
a light leak? I know that the back of the camera was securely closed.
And when not in use it was in the camera bag. I am wondering if anyone
else has had this occur? Or if you can help me determine what is
happening? Your help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!

dorothy mladenka