/ 2024-08-19T00:54:05Z Hugo 0.129.0 gemini://benjaminja.com/log/2024/08/18-film_development_issues/ 2024-08-19T00:54:05Z

/log/2024/08/18-film_development_issues/28846/unaccounted.jpg 🖼 Black and white photo of a sleeping lion with a white vertical bar going through the middle => /log/2024/08/18-film_development_issues/28846/20.jpg 🖼 Black and white photo of a sleeping sea lion sitting with a white vertical bar on the right side => /log/2024/08/18-film_development_issues/28846/16.jpg 🖼 Black and white photo of a puppy with a white vertical bar going down the middle => /log/2024/08/18-film_development_issues/28846/07.jpg 🖼 Black and white photo of the ocean with a white vertical bar going down the middle Film roll B => /log/2024/08/18-film_development_issues/86290/38.jpg 🖼 Black and white photo with the lense cap on, but there is still a vertical white bar going down the middle => /log/2024/08/18-film_development_issues/86290/2023-12-25_14.jpg 🖼 Black and white photo of the beach with a vertical white bar obscuring the image => /log/2024/08/18-film_development_issues/86290/2024-05-27_30.jpg 🖼 Black and white photo of possibly a goat with a vertical white bar obscuring the subject => /log/2024/08/18-film_development_issues/86290/2024-05-27_29.jpg 🖼 Black and white photo of a goat trying to eat a phone out of someones pocket with a white vertical bar going down the middle One of my theories of why I was getting issues was from the development process. Maybe when I roll up the film, it gets jammed and buckles into different layers. So in my latest roll of film, I made sure to do lots of practice and be very careful to get it right. It turns out however that that was not the cause of my problem. It’s also possible that my chemicals are too old, but it doesn’t make much sense that I would be getting such a consistent exposure issue. My next theory is that my camera has a light-leak in it. Most of the seams on my camera has a light trapping barrier to prevent light from leaking into the film container. One of the seams does not have a light barrier, but instead two lines of foam that press together to block out light. Since my camera is so old, this foam has degraded. It’s very possible that this is the cause for my light leakage. => /log/2024/08/18-film_development_issues/light-seal.jpg 🖼 Photo of my camera with the light seal highlighted Here are a couple things that back up my theory. The foam lining is on the film uptake side where all the exposed film is rolled up. There was a period of about 6 months between the first half of photos and the second half. The photos closer to the start of the break has more severe exposure issues. The exposure issue also happens on about every other photo. Maybe the photos which don’t have exposure issues were on the opposite side of the wall for the 6 month hiatus and so didn’t get exposed to light leakage. Since it is possible to see the underlying image in most of the photos, I think the light leakage would have to be very small. This could also explain why some rolls have had no issues. Rolls of film that were developed immediately after use and with little downtime wouldn’t see the leakage. My plan is to replace the foam and use another roll of film. If the foam is the problem, then I shouldn’t see the issue anymore. This of course would mean letting the film sit for a while in the camera for a proper test. ## Mentions => https://lowkey.zone/@ttocsneb/112986192551308959 Comments on mastodon => /contact/ 📭 Message me => /cgi-bin/gem/mention 📝Or mention this post ]]> 2024-08-19T00:54:05Z