----- Original Message ----- From: "John Mustarde" Subject: Re: developing Leonid shots
> On Fri, 30 Nov 2001 17:25:06 -0600, you wrote: > > >Unfortunately, often the entire film is clear space, with no > >visible frame delineation. This happens a lot with pictures such > >as meteor showers, fireworks and theatre/ concerts. We just give > >the film back to the custome uncut, hand them sissors and > >sleeving and let them do it themselves on the light table. > > So if the photographer shot the first frame with something clearly > visible, could one measure and manually cut the succeeding frames > fairly accurately? In theory, yes, in all likelyhood, no. If the first and 5th frames were sufficiently exposed to show frame edges, in practice, yes, providing your camera actually advances the film the ISO standard distance (I believe this is 38.5mm, but I could be wrong). William Robb - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
