More than just useful! Until we have more staff devoted specifically to QA, this is the only way we know. So our team must see these things and understand their source and fix it.
As promised, I am back with more results.
To remind you guys, earlier I shot the first of 3 rolls of P30, I used a Rollei 35S at ISO 80, measuring with the internal as well as an external Gossen meter.
All shots were extremly underexposed plus most frames had these multiple scratches we discussed weeks ago.
Now on my vacation I shot the second roll, again with the same Rollei, but I was taking each shot twice at ISO 80 as well as at ISO 20.
The ISO 20 shots were much better. I used Rodinal 1+50 for 14 mins as proposed in Ferrania's document.
So from my results I cannot really understand the ISO 80 rating...
The third roll I shot in my Nikon F80, the results were similar to my Rollei, plus I saw the same scratches popping up on a few frames as well.
To summarize:
ISO 80 was never a correct rating for me, ISO 20 gave much better results.
Frames in all 3 films were scratched, independently of which camera I used, so I hardly think this would be an issue of the camera itself.
See attached an example where you can see the scratch quite well.
And as someone suggested checking the leader and that maybe the light trap velvet was causing problems:
When holding the film against a light in a certain angle, I can also see scratches on the leader of the film I used with the Rollei.
The Rollei does not automatically spool back the film into the catridge, so the leader was never pulled in through the light trap velvet.
Plus I can also see the scratches all along all of the films when tilting them back and forth at certain angles, much better than any of my scans could show.
PS: I was not able to upload the sample image here as an attachment, what is the current maximum size for attaching images? I reduced the size multiple times but always got "there was an error".
Bernhard