Blurriness & White Line | Olympus OM-10

[ECD]

Very new to film photography, recently bought an Olympus OM-10 and some Kodak Gold 200 film. I had taken some practice shots to figure out how the camera works, if it works at all and too see how everything goes. So I had the film developed and got it back, and attached are a few of the shots.

As you can see, they're not great. All of them range from slightly blurry to really blurry to the point where you can't make out anything, and every single one has a thin white line that goes across the photo in the same place.

Can anyone please advice me on how to fix these? I think the blurriness may have to do with the shutter speed which the camera chooses itself. And for the white line, could there be a light leak, or a crack in the lens? How do I fix that?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Quendil]

You can get a manual adapter for the OM10 which will then allow you to choose the shutter speed. Are you sure the camera is working and metering correctly as it may be selecting a shutter speed that is too low, if you had the manual adapter you could try different speeds for the same shot to see what result you get.

I am a big fan of the Olympus OM cameras but I never got on with the OM10 or the OM20. I started with an OM40 about 30 years ago and loved that camera. My main camera now is the OM4Ti but I also use an OM1 and OM2 which can often be bought for the same price as some OM10 go for.

The line my well be due to the film catching on something in the camera so check for anything that matches where the line is on the negative.

 

[Truzi]

That line almost seems like a scanner issue. Can you see it on the negative? I had a similar thing happen with scans from a drug store mini-lab.

 

[ECD]

That line almost seems like a scanner issue. Can you see it on the negative? I had a similar thing happen with scans from a drug store mini-lab.

Yeah it definitely seems to be a processing issue, there's no line whatsoever on the negatives. I didn't even think of this, thanks!

 

[AgX]

Yeah it definitely seems to be a processing issue, there's no line whatsoever on the negatives. I didn't even think of this, thanks!

In the analog world "processing" means chemical processing.

Even with digital techniques having found their way into our group, we should reserve this term for the analogue world to avoid further1 confusion.

1 Confusion that turned up in the other thread you started in parallel.

 

[jvo]

welcome to photrio... it's always a learning experience, and fun.