Ok. Here's a fun one to ponder. The question: what the fudge is happening here? The setup - I used to live in Japan. At that time, Fuji Neopan 400 was between ¥250-300 for a roll of 36 exposures. It was silly cheap. And it was a good film (RIP). I shot a lot of it. At any rate, I was recently doing a bunch of re-scanning of old negatives and to my dismay, I discovered that many of my old Neopan 400 negatives are decaying in a bizarre way - small cracks and marks in the emulsion. None of the other brands of black and white film I shot from that time period show this defect (and I developed everything with the same chem/developer...T-Max). Not all of the Neopan is as bad as this example...some of it is on its way, some of it seems unaffected (so far), but a lot of it is...kinda ruined. So, what the fudge?
Pachinko Guy/Sad Film by
Jim Fischer, on Flickr
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Crop by
Jim Fischer, on Flickr