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Oh Dear! Disasters with Film
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So, I’ve had a few film disasters of late…
First, I lost three sheets of negs, from film I processed but never had a chance to make contact sheets, I’ve looked everywhere (even said a prayer to St. Anthony) but can’t find them anywhere… I am slowly coming around to the idea they have ben binned in a cleaning outburst.
Then, I lost 3 roll s of film in Westport, 1 from the F80, 1, from the Diana and 1 from the Holga, am particularly pissed off about these as I had shot some of them on Croagh Patrick, I have no idea what happened them… They just seemed to vanish!
See, it’s not normally like me to loose things (apart from car key, which I lose at least once a day) am normally careful with things… am not what you would call a scatterbrain.
Then, yesterday, I went out with the Holga and shot a roll of 400 colour film but had not loaded it properly and the negs were blank. So if you count it all up I’ve lost 212 pictures :cry:
I realize you can’t help me with any of that but the latest disaster I’ve had is strange yellow marks on the negs of a roll of T-Max 3200, I didn’t develop the film myself, my lecturer did it for to give some students a demo, I have not had a chance to ask his thoughts on what happened but the negs all have these strange yellow lines on them, you can see it here..
Any thoughts anyone?
IM far from being an expert but what are the streaks running down from the top??Maybe there wasnt enough developer and it ran down under the sprocket holes of the fil between agitations.
I wouldnt know :) I just read about it somewhere . .
Those marks generally are caused by over agitation. Agitation is important to ensure that the film is in contact with fresh developer during the processing. When you agitate the developing canister the chemicals movement will cause currents through the sprocket holes and over-agitation can create dark streaks where there are holes and this will create light steaks on the final print. Generally, I would agitate continuously for the first minute and then for five seconds in every thirty.
If you are using a Paterson processing tank, a small little stirring rod is supplied which can be used for agitating by rotating the film in the chemicals. An alternative is to agitate by inverting the tank gently for the five seconds. If you use this method you must tap the tank on a hard surface such as a counter-top to make sure that no bubbles lodge on the surface of the emulsion and create little underdeveloped spots on the film.Thanks for the replies.
Gizzo – :( indeed, ah well, these things happen.
eillop – I was wondering what they were myself.
thedarkroom – I would develop a film just as you described, but I didn’t do this one myself… But, I guess these things just happen sometimes.
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