Moto-Uno
Moto-Uno
What caused this ? Have never seen the film backing numbers come through
on the negatives before. Peter
on the negatives before. Peter
Scrambler
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Shanghai GP3 is infamous for doing this. The cause is hotly debated, the cure unknown. The only sure option is to avoid the film. It appears on some rolls but not others.
I can only presume that Lomo is getting their film made by Shanghai.
I can only presume that Lomo is getting their film made by Shanghai.
Ronald M
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Chinese can be paid less than 1/10 the minimum wage. All jobs that can be exported to lower wage countries will be. Goods are then brought back to the developed world and sold at prices that reflect developed world wages. Imagine the profit.
Quality control suffers. Employee health suffers. Employees are put in dangerous situations. Ships and aircraft are moving all over the world contaminating the atmosphere.
White collar jobs are also moving. Doctors examine you via internet. Some insurance is requiring you to get care in third world country or pay penalty, called medical tourism. Engineering and accounting work moves worldwide via internet.
So you have to buy a decent brand or suffer consequences.
Quality control suffers. Employee health suffers. Employees are put in dangerous situations. Ships and aircraft are moving all over the world contaminating the atmosphere.
White collar jobs are also moving. Doctors examine you via internet. Some insurance is requiring you to get care in third world country or pay penalty, called medical tourism. Engineering and accounting work moves worldwide via internet.
So you have to buy a decent brand or suffer consequences.
Moto-Uno
Moto-Uno
^After that delightful little rant ( not really sure how it directly pertains to the question), I wonder, did anybody drink the water downstream form Kodak?
Peter
Peter
mfogiel
Veteran
The only logical explanation would be, that light somehow filters through the film backing and fogs the film, thus imprinting the numbers that can be found at the back of the paper. Perhaps you have a light leak at the back of your camera, perhaps this happened before, hard to tell. Try to use another brand of film and see if you see something similar.
icebear
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Just a guess here .... are these film backing numbers printed on the paper around the 120 film ?
Maybe the printing of the numbers was still wet when rolled around the film or the paper quality sucks and allows ink or components of the ink (solvents) to migrate into the outer layers of the film and cause a chemical imprint which gets visible after development.
Maybe the printing of the numbers was still wet when rolled around the film or the paper quality sucks and allows ink or components of the ink (solvents) to migrate into the outer layers of the film and cause a chemical imprint which gets visible after development.
Scrambler
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This appears to be what goes on with Shanghai GP3. But the circumstances which bring this about are unknown, and it's probably <1/2 the rolls that are affected.
It's definitely not a light leak.
Is it a coarse matt black backing paper with white numbers? If so, pay more money and get another brand.
The 100ISO was definitely GP3 in 2010:
http://metrix-x.rraz.ca/2010/11/lomography-120-film-iso-100-is-shanghai.html
And see this discussion re the 400:
https://www.flickr.com/groups/ishootfilm/discuss/72157631444492400/