I’ve yet another question for the forum in my never-ending journey of developing my own film haha. My last roll I developed, I have these lines showing up on every exposure. They’re only really viewable when you zoom in, but still quite weird (screenshot attached).
Have you guys seen anything like this previously? I’m wondering if I messed something up in the developing process to get such a result, or if maybe something in my camera is finely scratching the film, or if I should maybe really give up on Fomapan
Camera - Ricoh FF3
Film - Fomapan 100
Dev - Kodak HC-110
If that should be the case, you’d see the scratches on your negatives. You might need a magnifier glass to see them. Scratches on negative film usually show as bright lines, which will be dark after converting. They are not that fine normally.
If you rotate your digicam to portrait orientation and capture the negative (leave it as is) and the scratches run vertically, the problem is in the digicam.
Trying the above should reveal the source of the issue.
…examining the film rather than the NLP conversion is the key to most of these problems. I suspect that they are on the film so In this example seeing where these lines stop and start, do they cross from one frame to the other, are they on the entire film, are they just on that film (possibly something in the cassette light trap) or on other films as well (a camera problem).
Hey Guys, thanks for the insights. I took a loupe to the negatives, and can verify it’s certainly on the negatives. The lines run thru all 36 exposures at the exact same location.
That’s bad luck, best to have a careful look at the film path inside your camera though it could be the film cassette. I don’t see that you could have damaged it like that when you were developing it - did you open the cassette to take the film out or did you pull it back through? You don’t have to answer that, just a thought!
If it’s that clear then the precise point that it starts relative to the very start of the film might have told you something but I guess you’ve thrown the films ends away by now.
