tlitody
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but the lines are not parallel with the film. I would expect that if it were the shutter.
film "noise"? bad processing? blue streaks like child drawing!
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Luddite Frank
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"Film Noise" ?????
Is that like "seda-give" ? ( Young Frankenstein )
Digital photography has "noise". Film does not.
My first suspicion would be either bad film or problems with the processing.
Just about all printing is done from digital scans of the negs these days, unless you request otherwise.
Have you looked at the negs on a light-box with a loupe ?
If the negs are clean, then the issue would seem to be in the scans.
I had quite a run of fuzzy prints that I was blaming on my camera (Exakta SLR with a Carl Zeiss Tessar 50 mm lens, ie: not junk), finally one of my photography mentors looked at the negs on a light box with a loupe, and said: " your negatives are quite sharp; the issues are with your lab & printing. Try another lab."
Is that like "seda-give" ? ( Young Frankenstein )
Digital photography has "noise". Film does not.
My first suspicion would be either bad film or problems with the processing.
Just about all printing is done from digital scans of the negs these days, unless you request otherwise.
Have you looked at the negs on a light-box with a loupe ?
If the negs are clean, then the issue would seem to be in the scans.
I had quite a run of fuzzy prints that I was blaming on my camera (Exakta SLR with a Carl Zeiss Tessar 50 mm lens, ie: not junk), finally one of my photography mentors looked at the negs on a light box with a loupe, and said: " your negatives are quite sharp; the issues are with your lab & printing. Try another lab."
Mister E
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Film has no noise, but digitizing a frame with scanner certainly can result in NOISE.
yelofngr
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thats what i was thinking. noise is for digital files and grain is for film.
but i didnt want to argue with the guy as i knew it wouldnt go anywhere.
i havent looked at the negatives with a loupe as i dont own one, but that sounds like a good idea. would these faint lines be visible on the negative if they were there?
this wasnt printed at the lab. i dont usually print. this was just a straight scan from the negative. my scanner is not even 3 months old so i think it would be unlikely to be a scanner issue. certainly possible, but i scanned it several times with different settings in different film holder locations and cleaned the glass.
what could be wrong with the film? just a couple bad areas on the strip of the film itself? does that happen with new off the shelf rolls? and two rolls in a row? kodak portra issues? this one is portra 800, and then i saw some of the same lines on a roll of portra 160vc
but i didnt want to argue with the guy as i knew it wouldnt go anywhere.
i havent looked at the negatives with a loupe as i dont own one, but that sounds like a good idea. would these faint lines be visible on the negative if they were there?
this wasnt printed at the lab. i dont usually print. this was just a straight scan from the negative. my scanner is not even 3 months old so i think it would be unlikely to be a scanner issue. certainly possible, but i scanned it several times with different settings in different film holder locations and cleaned the glass.
what could be wrong with the film? just a couple bad areas on the strip of the film itself? does that happen with new off the shelf rolls? and two rolls in a row? kodak portra issues? this one is portra 800, and then i saw some of the same lines on a roll of portra 160vc
Neare
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I think it's time for trial and error!
Firstly - Can you see the marks on the actual negatives?
Shoot some more rolls through the same camera, scan them etc and see if anything pops up. This so you can eliminate the camera.
Scan another roll you shot previously and you know is fine and see if anything is there - if there is that would make it the scanners fault.
Otherwise it would be the lab who screwed up, or even a dud film.
From the looks of it, it is light of some sort not noise.
I'm edging towards your scanner having the problem or time to find a new lab.
Firstly - Can you see the marks on the actual negatives?
Shoot some more rolls through the same camera, scan them etc and see if anything pops up. This so you can eliminate the camera.
Scan another roll you shot previously and you know is fine and see if anything is there - if there is that would make it the scanners fault.
Otherwise it would be the lab who screwed up, or even a dud film.
From the looks of it, it is light of some sort not noise.
I'm edging towards your scanner having the problem or time to find a new lab.
tlitody
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But you said could see the lines in the store index prints in post #2 of this thread. Then because you can also see them in your own scan, that means they MUST be on or in the negative. The guy who told you it was noise is assuming you are clueless. They know its film damage and probably from their processing and most likely squeegee marks.
