holga 400 strange negative

[NDP_2010]

I shot 2 rolls of the holga 400 120 film and looking at the negative I see small black streaks. These were on the majority of transparencies. Does anyone know what this is? I developed in lc29, though i do not think this would cause problems like this.

 

[Matthew Rusbarsky]

Scratches on the emulsion?

 

[Thomas Bertilsson]

The film is re-branded Foma 400.

There was a problem reported with their Foma 200 emulsion, in 120 format, a while back where they even stopped production of that particular film to re-do it, in an effort to fix it.

This problem looks exactly like the Foma 200 situation, which is too bad. It is, as far as I can tell, yet to be revealed what the problems were with the Foma film. But it is annoying, and detrimental to the results.
I had some of those problems myself, which ruined a couple of rolls I shot with it. The rest of the film went in the trash can.

I love how Foma films can look when there are no emulsion problems, and for the most part, they seem to give great results. But the odd chance of something like this happening is always looming, it seems.

 

[NDP_2010]

thanks for the reply.
although the film was cheap it does not justify whats going on here

 

[wblynch]

Seems like second quality Foma, rebranded for the Holga crowd. I'm sure they love the imperfections.

 

[ArtTwisted]

Since its Lomo branded film it could be anything, much of there film is expired by a long ways, and given there user base wants imperfections they could just be sticking a crate of the stuff out in the sun for a month.