Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>I went to school in Roswell N. M. From 1946-1947 at New Mexico >MilitaryInstitute. At the time I had a Mercury II, single frame 35mm camera. >For the last two years 1948-1950 ( shortly after the landing) my camera >stopped working. For some reason my film is fogged from the 1947 photographs. >Any suggestions?? >Clifton The Mercury cameras are rather hard to find in mint and good working condition, The spinning dials are kind of fun to watch........ but UFO's have of course been reported to cause things to stop working........ As far as the fogging....... Cosmic radiation does fog undeveloped film... this becomes more noticeable especially over time..... This is one of the reasons Kodak stores 3200 ASA films in old salt mines..... Of course an alien spacecraft powered by light fotons could have possibly fogged the film as well..... If it's developed film that has "fogged" over the years... either it wasn't processed and washed right or the memory is a bit fogged about whether the negatives were originally fogged or not...... The memory loss could have possibly been caused by...... well.......... a series of the spacecrafts electromagnetic or photon pulses that damaged a few of your synapses.......... (Sorry, I couldn't resist.... chuckle, chuckle) Seriously, you can usually make a good print off of the negs by adjusting contrast and some dodging or burning if it is unevenly fogged..... But it is still possible to make a good print to the point that you would never guess the negatives were fogged. And no.... I'm not a UFO'er ....... "Not that there is anything wrong with that " (Jerry Seinfeld) Duane Birkey