Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 10:07 AM 6/25/00 -0700, Mike wrote: >That sounds like hand loading fog. If you hand load and don't attach the >film to the spool in the dark, the last few frames get fogged. > >Are you sure the film was fresh from Kodak? Most of it I ordered it from B&H two weeks before I left and none of it was hand-loaded. I did pass it through the hand X-ray machines, but all of my film was in lead-lined bags - and I would think that any x-ray damage would occur more on the front of the roll. Some of the film, I had left in a refrigerator in Honduras last year. I didn't mark that film any way so it could be the year-old film that is fogged. It was still well within the expiration date and refrigerated in a sealed plastic bag, but I certainly won't do that again if I figure out that's what fogged it. >Was there any pattern to the fog? Was it All black, more on the sprockets, >sharp edged, tapering off anywhere? No pattern except that it gets progressively denser from about frame 30 to the end of the roll. Sprockets and edges equally fogged. >Were you using a favorite lens that you took off and switched to another >body at the end of each roll? I don't think so. The fact that it is only the last 5 or 6 frames and only the TMax 400 would seem to rule out camera or lens problems. >Puzzles are always fun (even when they hurt). I'd like to figure this one out so I don't repeat it. The best shots always seem to be at the end of the roll! Leically, Tina Tina Manley, ASMP http://www.tinamanley.com