100ee with a leak

[mitspooner]

The past two past have been amazingly nice here so we hit the park yesterday and I was shooting with my Polaroid 100ee. It seems to have have caught a leak some where but a few turned out ok.




also added them to the flickr group with a couple more.

[ImageMaker]

Sure does look like you have a hole in the bellows, there, Mitch.  

[mitspooner]

Can't find it after searching three times now but I did a little work on the two I like the most.



I really like this one and after a little messing around it seems better.

[ImageMaker]

Well, on second thought, those *could* be "bellows flare" -- caused when the sun is almost in frame and a bright, albeit poorly focused image of the sun is cast on the interior of the bellows.  The scatter from that bright spot can cast shadows and fog film similarly to a pinhole, though it seldom if every includes the sharp shadow of hanging threads I see in the second shot (original post).  The bright streak in that one is also consistent with what one might see when a fairly smooth camera movement tracked the solar image across the film either before or after exposure (though that one, almost sun in frame, is also the best candidate for extreme flare).

[mitspooner]

I.M I had a couple that had the sun right in the middle of the frame that put a flare from top to bottom of the frame and still had the weird leak in it (with the threads). I think what I will do is "flock" the inside of the bellows and then never close it again.

[mitspooner]

Doing some more messing!