C-41 blob

[Wayne]

This is a straight scan of something I developed last night. Is this incomplete blixing? I didn't hear any transporter noises so I don't think a landing party from the Enterprise was beaming down. Neither of the 2 other negs had this problem. This was developed in a drum on a roller base with Unicolor chems that I Mixed a few weeks ago but were unused and tightly capped with little or no air. I had 3 negs in the drum and all stayed in their proper place. I used more solution than I needed to

 

[markbarendt]

When in doubt with C41 Skip the developer but do everything else again.

 

[Rudeofus]

As Mark said, re-BLIXing is your only hope, so go ahead and try it.

PS: I checked the colours of fogged and unfogged regions of similar image content, and the fogging seems to affect all colour layers. This could point at a spurious light leak rather than some development artefact.

 

[markbarendt]

Rudy sparked another idea for me.

Possibly a bit of flare, looks like you were shooting into the sun, yes?

Still no harm done by redoing the run sans developer to rule that out.

 

[Wayne]

I was shooting westward late in the day and the sun was in and out of clouds. But I've never seen flare only in the interior of an image before. I'm hoping for the blix explanation but I always blix an extra minute so I'm not terribly hopeful. I'll redo and find out. Its possible I put the film into the drum emulsion side out, but I've never done that before.

 

[Wayne]

Must be flare after all. Re-blix did nothing.

 

[markbarendt]

Must be flare after all. Re-blix did nothing.

Yeah the more I looked the more it looked like flare.

Just checking, you re-did the final rinse too, right?

 

[Wayne]

rinse and stabilizer, yup

I wonder if I shot that with my single coated G-Claron. I'll have to look at my notes if I took any

 

[markbarendt]

The flare will normally be visible on the ground glass but IMO our brains do tend to ignore things like that, maybe a better way to put that is that our brain expects it so it doesn't always register as a problem while we're shooting.

 

[Wayne]

I honestly don't think I've ever had flare before. I rarely shoot in sunshine and I wasn't looking at the ground glass just before the exposure. I was waiting, waiting, waiting for the wind to stop moving the flowers with the darkslide pulled as the sun went in and out of the clouds. Never would have happened with my RB lol.