delta 100 surprise

mitch brown · Aug 25, 2006

hi
last night i developed 4 sheets of delta 100 that were of pictures of a friend mountain view from his new home site in upstate Ny. 3 turned out very well but one looked funny , it hade 5 lines that looked like a smear but very uniform on it . i could not figure out what it was so this morning i printed it it . it was a double exposure, ok i screwed up right! not so it turns out it the lines are a brick wall sharp as a tack clear but dim. now here is the rub. there are no brick walls at his or my home. i have taken no pictures of a brick wall, and the film was just loaded this last weekend in my darkroom. how strange is this.
mitchel

Sjixxxy · Aug 25, 2006

It would be way creepier if instead of a brick wall, it was Walt Disney's living face.

Willie Jan · Aug 25, 2006

Sjixxxy said:
It would be way creepier if instead of a brick wall, it was Walt Disney's living face.

or a picture of elvis...

George Collier · Aug 25, 2006

Never happened to me, but who knows with sheet film. Do you sleep-shoot?

srs5694 · Aug 25, 2006

I've never shot sheet film, so I don't know how it's packaged, but: Is it possible that the film was sold to somebody who shot an exposure, put it back in its package, and returned the film to the store, which then re-sold it? This could have been done by accident or as a prank. (More likely the latter if you'd need to break any seals to open the package.)

Eric Rose · Aug 25, 2006

to bad it doesn't have a religious motif. you could put it on ebay and make a fortune. the turin negative!

Petzi · Aug 25, 2006

I remember I once had a picture of two candles at one end of a roll of 35mm color print film which I had exposed in the summer. Never figured out how that got there. I had only been shooting outdoors.

ChrisW · Aug 25, 2006

It's clearly a subversive signal from the digital miscreants.

srs5694 · Aug 25, 2006

Eric Rose said:
to bad it doesn't have a religious motif. you could put it on ebay and make a fortune. the turin negative!

I recall hearing that one of the theories about the Shroud of Turin is that it's an early photograph, perhaps created by Leonardo da Vinci. I don't know all the details of this theory, though.

glennfromwy · Aug 25, 2006

I once got a sheet with a faint image of the linoleum on the kitchen floor, in addition to the subject image. I thought it pretty strange, considering neither camera nor film had been in the kitchen. Some kind of conspiracy, I suspect.

rjas · Aug 26, 2006

I got a batch of Delta 100 in 4x5 that no matter what I tried, I got weird smearing on the negs that looked like jesus.

Actually it looked like random smears, never got it with any other films in the same processes and Ilford never helped me out so I boycotted delta.

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