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| How does an APS film canister allow light in? |
winniemiles |
12/14/03 |
Since this APS film is housed in a plastic canister, how does it get exposed to light?
I recently received a roll of processed APS film and some pics came out fine while others were yellow + red. There would be 1 or 2 decent exposures, then 2 or 3 with the color messed up, then there would be 2 or 3 decent exposures, then 1 or 2 messed up. The clerk told me that light had "leaked" into my camera.
This does not make any sense to me. Can light reach some exposures in an APS film canister? If so, it seems that only 2 or 3 exposures from one location would be messed up; not the random order of my pictures. I cannot help but think that it was something that happened to my film during processing.
I have taken hundreds of rolls of film and never had this happen before. What happened? Can light get to the film if you accidently open the camera, like 35mm? If so, how? Thanks!
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Clarification/Follow-up by winniemiles on 12/15/03 3:46 am:
Butch, I can't thank you enough. I thought that there had to be some way for light to get the film once the user had started taking pictures.
Do you know? Please tell me if I'm in the ball park...While the APS film is being used, it is being spooled across the lense opening, right? Until the last picture is taken and rewound into the cassette, it is just hanging out in the back of the camera like 35mm film, right?
I know that this is a stupid question but I am curious how these little canisters work.
Thanks again.
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