Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/06/27
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Tina- Curiouser, and curiouser! Keep us posted ( No pun intended) Dan ( I STAY in a fog....mostly....) Post - ----- Original Message ----- From: Tina Manley <images@InfoAve.Net> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> Sent: Monday, June 26, 2000 8:02 PM Subject: Re: [Leica] Trip Report - Fog > Hi, Wilbur - > > Fogging was on the spool end - last five or six frames. The only > consistent thing was that it was all TMax 400, but not all of the TMax > 400. I thought it was a camera leak at first and was trying to figure out > which of the 4 bodies I carried could be leaking, but then I noticed that > all of the Tri-X and other films were ok, so it wasn't a camera leak. At > least the fogging is not so bad that I can't print the negatives. It's > just a mystery! > > Tina > > > > At 12:57 PM 6/26/00 -0400, you wrote: > >Tina: I'm getting in on this at the tail end (so to speak). Question, > >fogging on the leader end or the spool end? Complete fogging edge to edge > >is usually one of two things (IMHO). Film was exposed to light by the A. > >Photographer B. The Manufacture. As this is only on the one type of film > >and is the same amount (?) on each roll my vote would be a manufacturing > >glitch. Did this show up on different processing batches or was it limited > >to one. I had something very similar happen 33 yr. ago with a Twin Lens > >Rollie, shooting Tri X 120 at a High School football game. Shot 2 rolls, > >ran them together. One was fine the other was fogged edge to edge. It was > >Kodak who goofed as we found 4 others rolls the same in that 20 roll > >brick. Usually heat failure will cause the asa to goof and you can get some > >fogging but it is usually mottled. You mentioned the X-Ray, if this was the > >problem then I think you would have more than just ends fogged. Hope you > >figure it out. Please let us know. BTW was this limited to just one camera > >body or to several? > >Cheers Wilber > > > >Brian Reid wrote: > > > > > I'd bet money that the fogging happened during development. I don't > > > know the Jobo processor. When I load my Nikor reels the last 5 or 6 > > > frames are the ones closest to the outside. By any chance does the Jobo > > > put the end of the film in the middle of the spool? > > Tina Manley, ASMP > http://www.tinamanley.com >