Hellish Green/fogged/dense "orange mask" C-41 Tetenal

[MattKing]

I'm wondering if the damage could be due or contributed to by some sort of contamination - including moisture - during the 20 years this film has been sitting around.

 

[railwayman3]

I'm wondering if the damage could be due or contributed to by some sort of contamination - including moisture - during the 20 years this film has been sitting around.

I agree, storage in a drawer could cause heat, moisture, fumes (furniture glue, other items in the drawer, etc.). Add possible light-leak through the base at some time, together with age-related deterioration of the latent image both picture and edge-printing (the latter being very unpredictable even between different batches of the same film).

I've had great results when experimenting with old films, but an exposed 126 film (about 2001, therefore a similar age to yours) which I developed recently for a friend was more-or-less orange-grey with heavy fog and faint images. Normal fresh chemicals, as always used, so, like the OP, I'm confident that the processing wasn't at fault.

 

[AgX]

I'm wondering if the damage could be due or contributed to by some sort of contamination - including moisture - during the 20 years this film has been sitting around.

With contamination can hardly be explained those edges, if one considers how film is spooled inside the cassette.

 

[Photo Engineer]

Looks like red safelight fog to me.

Light images might be due to old film.

PE

 

[georgegrosu]

From what I see in the film Ferania, it reminds me of the color negative AZOMURES.
The film was a negative color for amateurs and the Azo Mures factory made a small test shot for cinematography (~ 20,000 m).
The color negative was to be used for various contratipes made after color prints.
The color negative was not much used and after about 3-4 years the film had unbalanced.
The cyan curve fell down.
To be able to use it the color negative, we found the solution to fogging the negative, to make curves as parallel as possible.
Fogging has the same color as your picture.
The yellow - green portion was exposed on a continuous - printer.
Looks like he has two exposures (fogging).
One more closed on perforation to the sound zone.
And a second exposure the sound zone, with a weaker light.

George

 

[ludwighagelstein]

Looks like red safelight fog to me.

Light images might be due to old film.

PE

I can confirm that this film has never seen a red safelight in my darkroom...

 

[Photo Engineer]

Very low levels of tungsten light will do the same as it is rich in red light.

PE

 

[ludwighagelstein]

Very low levels of tungsten light will do the same as it is rich in red light.

PE

Also a negative. My darkroom is completely blacked out when I spool the film onto the reels. Otherwise the Gold200 Teststrip would have been fogged, too...

 

[Photo Engineer]

Well, it does not appear to be the process which leaves only fog of some sort.

PE

 

[AgX]

I can confirm that this film has never seen a red safelight in my darkroom...

I too found fogging by a safelight rather unlikiely. That 's why I proposed exposure through the back.

 

[georgegrosu]

ludwighagelstein, having the old Ferrania FIlm in front, can you tell me whether the two
yellow - green bands (darker and lighter) seem to be uniform on the film?
It seems to me an exposure (two) made on an industrial printer machine.
Over these exposures with controlled red light is also the exposure of the photographic image.
Accidental fogging do not look uniform.

George

 

[ludwighagelstein]

ludwighagelstein, having the old Ferrania FIlm in front, can you tell me whether the two
yellow - green bands (darker and lighter) seem to be uniform on the film?
It seems to me an exposure (two) made on an industrial printer machine.
Over these exposures with controlled red light is also the exposure of the photographic image.
Accidental fogging do not look uniform.

George

Hey George, the strip is not completely uniform. but the (now cut off) leader of the film showed the same density differences/streaks than the rest although it was exposed completely to light. Thus i think the inconsistencies are an emulsion error and not related to exposure...

 

[georgegrosu]

ludwighagelstein, thanks for the info.
I'm curious, on the end of the film exposed completely to light, how do you see the maximum densities?
It's good to see and a little bit of a film not exposed completely to light.

George

 

[ludwighagelstein]

ludwighagelstein, thanks for the info.
I'm curious, on the end of the film exposed completely to light, how do you see the maximum densities?
It's good to see and a little bit of a film not exposed completely to light.

George

You can see the max density with the bare eye, because it isn´t very dense at all.

 

[georgegrosu]

I understand that the maximum density is seen in the part of the perforations on the left side of the old Ferrania film.
How do you see the maximum density from the right yellow green stripe near the perforations on the right?

George

 

[newcan1]

I have some Konica film (100" lengths) that I bought from photo warehouse that has similar problems along the roll, with green fogging. PW had perforated it from non-perf stock, and I had always thought that the green was attributable to fogging.