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Black marks / light fog on negatives. What caused this?


When I looked up the problem, I saw a couple of examples of other images looking just like it. I don't recall where.

A light leak from the camera back would generally show up on the unexposed areas of the film. Something reflective inside the camera could maybe cause it. Or it's possibly a scanning artifact? I inverted your picture of the negative - it shows up a bit different in that.



Almost looks like a bit of vignetting.
 
Don_ih said:
A light leak from the camera back would generally show up on the unexposed areas of the film.
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Yes, unless it's just below the threshold of creating density and above the threshold to act as a pre/post-flash exposure. It looks a bit like that. But it's wise to first exclude the possibility of a digitization artefact.
 

On the neg below this one, you can see a bit of that light on the edges of the frame underneath the one youv've inverted. I'll try to find that negative.
It was Fresh film, and it's a 24mm Nikkor, possibly vingetting but I do feel there are also leaks. Back foams were shot.

So long as theres no leaks in-body or through the prism or something, it should be okay!
 
It's difficult to trust the edges of a scanned image because light projected through the unexposed parts can infect the edge of the image. So, it's definitely better to mask the sprocket track.
 
Re the reddish edges: I would be inclined to suspect the negative holder of your scanner. Reflections can cause such anomalies. Nothing much you can do about it, except crop the edges away.
 
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