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- Aug 21, 2008
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Maybe somebody can tell by just looking at the picture, but here's the whole story . . .
I've shot either digital or medium and large format for the past 20 years. For no good reason I felt the urge to give 35mm a shot again. I dusted off the Contax/Yashicas that had been in my "collection" for the better part of two decades. I chose to work first with a Contax 139Q and a Sonnar medium to long zoom. I shot a roll of Tmax 3200 and developed it in Rodinal. (1:25 6. minutes and change, 70 degrees). The result was awful. I gave it a good long think and reasoned that it was the lens. I had bought it when prices were super low but had never actually shot with it. The exposure meter on the camera checked out, and the shutter sounded about right. I am pretty sure of my processing routine, and the printed letters on the edge of the film were perfect. So I decided to run a test roll of TX400 using 3 different lenses, at both the film box speed and half the speed. I mixed a new batch of chemicals. This time the results were acceptable, with no problems I couldn't understand. I concluded it was indeed the lens.
So I decided to shoot a roll of color using one of the lens that had produced acceptable results. What you see is the result, which is the same problem I had with the first roll of B&W although not nearly as bad. At this point, the only things that the color and B&W rolls have in common are the camera body, me, and my scanner. I eliminate the body as the problem, first because I can't see how it could possibly cause this type of problem and because it had already produced a decent roll. But then, so had my scanner and me.
Any and all help will be enthusiastically welcome.
P
I've shot either digital or medium and large format for the past 20 years. For no good reason I felt the urge to give 35mm a shot again. I dusted off the Contax/Yashicas that had been in my "collection" for the better part of two decades. I chose to work first with a Contax 139Q and a Sonnar medium to long zoom. I shot a roll of Tmax 3200 and developed it in Rodinal. (1:25 6. minutes and change, 70 degrees). The result was awful. I gave it a good long think and reasoned that it was the lens. I had bought it when prices were super low but had never actually shot with it. The exposure meter on the camera checked out, and the shutter sounded about right. I am pretty sure of my processing routine, and the printed letters on the edge of the film were perfect. So I decided to run a test roll of TX400 using 3 different lenses, at both the film box speed and half the speed. I mixed a new batch of chemicals. This time the results were acceptable, with no problems I couldn't understand. I concluded it was indeed the lens.
So I decided to shoot a roll of color using one of the lens that had produced acceptable results. What you see is the result, which is the same problem I had with the first roll of B&W although not nearly as bad. At this point, the only things that the color and B&W rolls have in common are the camera body, me, and my scanner. I eliminate the body as the problem, first because I can't see how it could possibly cause this type of problem and because it had already produced a decent roll. But then, so had my scanner and me.
Any and all help will be enthusiastically welcome.
P