mitch
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So it's been a while since I've done any developing on my own, and while I admit I haven't done all that much of it, I've never ran into anything like this before.
A few days ago I picked up some Efke R25, shot it in my Mamiya 7, and developed it at home in my cheap plastic tank, one reel at a time. The first roll I developed in Rodinal 1:50 for 8 minutes, the second I tried 1:100 for an hour. Both rolls were rinsed in water for a minute or two and then fixed in Ilford's RapidFix for about two and a half minutes. On both rolls I encountered some problems:
For one, there appears to have been a light leak somewhere along the line. They show up on both edges of the negatives, though it's more prominent on one side than it is another. Stranger than that though, is that along the edges of some of the frames themselves, it appears as if the image is 'bleeding' into the unexposed area of the negative, though this only seems to happen in the denser parts of the negative. This also does not happen in every frame, it seems to be random. The markings on the negatives themselves also exhibit this, making the frame numbers look kind of blurred or like a drop shadow or glowing edge was added in photoshop. That's really the only way I can describe it.
I don't think the light leak (if it even is one) is in the camera itself, as I just shot a roll of Velvia through it about a week or two ago and those negatives show nothing of the sort that these most recent two are. Also, when I loaded the second roll onto the reel, I did so using the changing bag in complete darkness, trying to determine where the problem lies. That second roll isn't as bad as the first, though there is one spot between two of the frames where it looks like the film was exposed to a single point of light. Otherwise the effects are still there, though less pronounced.
I'm going to shoot a third roll today or sometime soon and have that developed at a lab here in the city, to try to eliminate the camera itself as the problem, but I'm hoping someone else may have run into something like this before and can tell me what I might be doing wrong.
A few days ago I picked up some Efke R25, shot it in my Mamiya 7, and developed it at home in my cheap plastic tank, one reel at a time. The first roll I developed in Rodinal 1:50 for 8 minutes, the second I tried 1:100 for an hour. Both rolls were rinsed in water for a minute or two and then fixed in Ilford's RapidFix for about two and a half minutes. On both rolls I encountered some problems:
For one, there appears to have been a light leak somewhere along the line. They show up on both edges of the negatives, though it's more prominent on one side than it is another. Stranger than that though, is that along the edges of some of the frames themselves, it appears as if the image is 'bleeding' into the unexposed area of the negative, though this only seems to happen in the denser parts of the negative. This also does not happen in every frame, it seems to be random. The markings on the negatives themselves also exhibit this, making the frame numbers look kind of blurred or like a drop shadow or glowing edge was added in photoshop. That's really the only way I can describe it.
I don't think the light leak (if it even is one) is in the camera itself, as I just shot a roll of Velvia through it about a week or two ago and those negatives show nothing of the sort that these most recent two are. Also, when I loaded the second roll onto the reel, I did so using the changing bag in complete darkness, trying to determine where the problem lies. That second roll isn't as bad as the first, though there is one spot between two of the frames where it looks like the film was exposed to a single point of light. Otherwise the effects are still there, though less pronounced.
I'm going to shoot a third roll today or sometime soon and have that developed at a lab here in the city, to try to eliminate the camera itself as the problem, but I'm hoping someone else may have run into something like this before and can tell me what I might be doing wrong.
