Can you help figure out where the problems is/was? HP5+

Kirks518 · Nov 12, 2016

Nope, the roll came out of a sealed box and put immediately into the camera by me.

summicron1 · Nov 13, 2016

Have you considered ghosts? Any women in your household having that time of the month? Did you fail to offer up the standard virgin sacrifice last thursday?

Really, it's fun to speculate but you may never know. The camera seems to be OK, the film otherwise seems ok. Maybe it's time to move on.

Or, if you are feeling unsure about the Canon 7, send it to me and I'll run it through the standard evil spirit removal process, which consists of hanging out with all the spiritually pure cameras in my collection for a few years. The Canon F1 has mystical powers for good!

piu58 · Nov 13, 2016

> it will tell you if you have a seal-leak.

Light leaks look different. The film is exposed to the leak a very different tim. If you shoot let't say 3 photographs in a short time, there is less time to expose the film. Then it may be a period where the same piece of film is near the leak for some hours: Tens of seconds vs. hours: That should be visible in perpendicular strips, if the leak is not such large that you detect it prima vista.

John Wiegerink · Nov 13, 2016

piu58 said:
> it will tell you if you have a seal-leak.

Light leaks look different. The film is exposed to the leak a very different tim. If you shoot let't say 3 photographs in a short time, there is less time to expose the film. Then it may be a period where the same piece of film is near the leak for some hours: Tens of seconds vs. hours: That should be visible in perpendicular strips, if the leak is not such large that you detect it prima vista.

Yes, this is a longer shot of bright light. Have to send this one to the TV show "Unsolved Mysteries".

railwayman3 · Nov 13, 2016

It's easy to forget and make silly mistakes.....I recently set out to reload a camera which I hadn't used for a few months, opened the back and found a part-exposed film in it (as it happens, HP5+). Totally forgot ! I remembered that the shots used were of no importance, so took the film out, wound it back to the start noted the number of exposures made, and kept it until I needed a short length of B&W to shoot. Obviously, when I later shot the remainder of film and processed it, the fogged part was exactly as the OP's example. Mistakes happen to us all ?

Kirks518 · Nov 14, 2016

Well, second roll through the Canon 7 came out normal. So..... I'm calling Gremlins.

pentaxuser · Nov 14, 2016

Kirks518 said:
Well, second roll through the Canon 7 came out normal. So..... I'm calling Gremlins.

Captain Kirk knows how to deal with them. He breaks the fuselage window on what looks like a Dakota and walks onto the wing and shoots the gremlin. He gets back into the plane and it lands safely. Unfortunately the experience has rendered him insane because no-one believes there was a gremlin.

Sound familiar? The crazy thing was that this episode was thought up long before there was something called APUG.

Cue appropriate music......

pentaxuser

ic-racer · Nov 15, 2016

John Wiegerink said:
You don't have anyone around that might have pulled the leader out and then rewound it back in to the beginning just to play a joke on you

Only Uri Geller could do that by pulling the leader out; fogging frame 29, while leaving frame 28 untouched....

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