Post pictures from your botched film

[imush]

I mean pictures with light leaks, or the ones where you did not pour enough developer.

Yesterday I ruined a roll of Neopan 1600. I rarely use the plastic tank these days, but the still ones were taken by APX100. So I put the film in there and forget to put it in the rod, just turned on the light on a tank with a light hole on top.

As if that were not enough, I confused the developers and poured Rodinal into the tank with Neopan 1600, and Xtol into APX100. Then I overdevelop it while frantically searching for a reasonable time for Neopan 1600 to be in Rodinal 1:50.

So here are a couple of scans from damaged, overdeveloped (by a factor of 2 or so) Neopan









The APX100 is, of course, good in anything, but looks a little too flat in Xtol.

 

[AJShepherd]

The biggest developing disaster I've had was last year when I developed a roll of Ektar 100 in Tetenal C41 that was way past its best. The negatives came out apparently clear, only by looking very closely could I make out a incredibly faint vestige of an image. So I hung them up to dry, and then I threw them in my scanner, to see what it could get.

Remarkably, the scanner managed to pull out images, like this one:-

Under Repair by Antony J Shepherd, on Flickr

 

[Chris101]

The ultimate botch ...

 

[Chris101]

Once in a while the film touches during processing. In very rare cases, I like what it does:

 

[Brian Legge]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/cannelbrae/4421227093/in/set-72157624508309973/

Under exposed + terrible mini lab processing.

 

[dovi]

underexposed, overdeveloped

underexposed, overdeveloped

neopan 400@ 1600

 

[unixrevolution]

I took a roll out of a 35mm Pentax SLR to use later, but forgot to mark that it was partially shot. I then loaded it in a Univex Mercury half-frame camera. The overlapping shots of the two cameras created an interesting "photomontage".

 

[Denis M.]

Technically this was due to botched loading, the development was fine. It's a good idea to clean your film changing bag.

Discount ebay film from a "partially used" stack

Dark slide "malfunction"

The classic, forgetting which side was exposed "two for one" deal

 

[Roberto V.]

Untitled by Roberto V., on Flickr

I thought the vertical lines were only in the prints, but I recently looked at the negatives, and the lines are there! How on earth did the lab do that? They always manage to screw up my pictures:bang:

 

[bolohead]

Some frame spacing issues in a Fujica G690BL.

 

[StephenPG]

These are my first attempts at scanning.... 32 year old negatives that have been stored in the garage. Some weird stuff going on with the emulsions. I also seem to remember that I like pushing Tri-X 2 stops and using a developer additive called Factor 8.

 

[jordan.dickinson]

I kind of like this one, despite the obvious light leak. Sometimes a mistake can be a happy accident...


the happy accident by slantface, on Flickr

 

[Pirate]

135 format in my M3 trying out a flash, I had the shutter speed a couple stops too fast. That's Georg (gho) in Berlin, he's here on this forum.

 

[varjag]

I once ruined a roll of K64 by foolishly opening the base plate before rewinding film. It streaked the top, but after chopping that part out it was kinda OK. Here are couple of shots:


Katyusha MLRS memorial by varjagg, on Flickr


Exhibits of agricultural machinery by varjagg, on Flickr

 

[richreidjr]

well these are not from a rf; but botched nevertheless. Mamiya NC1000 with aparent advance issues.
Worth fixing?
Rich