What happened?

Might be fixer residue... might be water marks. Have you tried re-rinsing and drying the negative? I don't know what you currently use for your final rinse, but I've had great success with plain distilled water. I use my fingers to squeegee off the excess before hanging them to dry. Hope this helps.

Thanks for the quick reply. I tried re rinsing the neg and it didn't change anything. I use good ol' tap water for my rinse and have never had a problem like this before. The water here in calgary is a little on the hard side but it is Glacier fresh...

is it isolated to this one negative?

Do you use a wetting agent like Photoflo?

Was this film developed on a spiral? Looks like the film may not have been wound uniformly onto the spiral, and one layer was in contact with the layer immediately below it for a portion of the development time.

I used photoflo and I developed it on a spiral and it affects the other negs on the roll too.

I did re rinse the neg and it didn't go away.

What was your developing temp/time? It looks to me as if the denser parts of the negative (lighter parts of the image) may have been extra time with developer puddles on the film, between the developer and stop bath. Did you have a longer than normal time between pouring off the developer and pouring in the stop/rinse? If that time was a significant percentage of a short developing time, this could be one possible result.

The fact that the "spots" appear lighter, or more developed than the rest of the film would argue against the film sticking together, as that would result in patches of underdevelopment, which would be darker.

Lee

"Was this film developed on a spiral? Looks like the film may not have been wound uniformly onto the spiral, and one layer was in contact with the layer immediately below it for a portion of the development time." Monophoto

This would be my guess as well.... of course I'm no technical expert by any means. Good luck. Shawn

Re fixing didn't help. I'm thinking you guysmight have been right... I'll have to be more careful from now on...