Testing a Barnack

[Roger Hicks]

Test roll came out fine. the last two frames overlapped. I'll watch to make sure that it's not chronic. TThe spacing of the frames is consistent, but very small. Is that because I'm shooting with a wide lens, a 3.5cm? Shutter test looks fine. No evidence yet of any light leaks.
Test is more or less complete, except for the flash synch.
No more excuses. Now I have to go shoot!

You got it!

Cheers,

R.

 

[I Love Film]

When you ask about "testing a Barnack", I can only assume you are talking about testing "the Barnack", and I have some thoughts on that matter.

I would think that if you tested Barnack it would be an unpleasant mess.

First of all, you'd have to dig him up, and if there was anything left he would be horribly decomposed.

Then, you'd have to decide what to test him for. Arsenic? A beating? Morphine overdose?

I'd think it would be difficult, at best.

Having said that, I was present the last time he was tested, I would guess around 1976.

I was allowed to keep his upper plate and one piece of the dessicated lich, which to my uneducated eye appears to be a left testicle. Both are in a bell jar on my piano.

 

[Dwig]

...The spacing of the frames is consistent, but very small. Is that because I'm shooting with a wide lens, a 3.5cm? ...

Quite likely.

The frame spacing should be exactly 8 sprocket holes, measured from the left edge of one to the left edge of the next image or 8th sprocket hole. Many wide angle lenses will throw their image under the frame mask creating an image wider than 36mm and hence narrowing the gap between frames.