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Would opening film camera back w hile rewinding create light leaks?
I have an old Yashica film camera (not an SLR). It has a switch that rewinds the film for me once I've shot the roll of film. I was wondering if I opened and quickly closed the back of the camera (where the film goes) a few times while this happened, would I get light leaks ? Or would it just completely ruin the film? I don't want huge light leaks. Just small ones.
I'm just trying to get a real vintage (as in light leaks, film grain, dust etc.) look to my photos. The camera is probably 21+ years old. So I dunno if some of that will just come naturally. Is there anything else I can do to mess with the film? Maybe like..wash it with my clothes or..leave it in the sun. Things like that.
You will ruin the film by trying such a brute force way of introducing light leaks. Light leaks tend to be very focussed spillages that produces gradually swelling patches of light on the film. The actual opening that allows the light in would be tiny. What you are proposing would not be advisable.
To create small "natural" looking light leaks, you could (if you don't care about the camera) mess around with the build quality. For example, a 30+ year old SLR I used had a tiny discrepancy in the mirror assembly, allowing a pin-prick of light through. Also, the rubber seal next to the prism had worn away, leaving a tiny sliver of light getting through. With these small 'gaps' in the engineering, I had fairly strong light leaks across the edges and corners of many frames - whilst shooting at 1/250 and 1/500 of a second.
That's all the time it took. Now imagine what you would do to your film if you opened the entire back of the camera...
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