Hot Spots on Rollei Retro 80s Negative

I shot and developed my first roll of Rollei Retro 80s today. The film seems to have found some light leaks on some of the edges of the negs that my Tri-X never saw (or it was a loading issue), but these inside shots have me puzzled. I can't figure out if it's reflections or what. Any ideas? It happened in the same place on both of the shots that I took in this coffee house, but two other shots that I took in low light somewhere else didn't show this problem. Otherwise, very interesting film that loves clouds. The shots of that were really nice.

The camera, a TLR, was resting on my table for these slow exposures, and I wonder if that is what I'm seeing, some reflection off that?

Visible on the negatives or only on the digitised versions?

It's most helpful in diagnosing negative problems to post a picture of the negative on a lightbox rather than an inverted scan; you can a sheet of printer paper held up to a window, or a laptop/tablet/phone screen as well.

Could be the pressure plate.
On your shots, there are 2 spots on the roof area and 2 ellipse halos towards the bottom portion.

It must be the reflections from the table top that the camera was resting on, although I did scrutinize the pressure plate now that you mentioned it. The hot spots are on the neg itself. Thank you for the tips. All the other low light interior shots look OK.

Here's one of the inside shots that worked fine, along w/ a cloud shot. On the latter, I forgot to refocus the camera after shooting inside, and I couldn't see much in the ground glass because the sun was right behind me flaring the view, but I like it out of focus anyway.

This film is amazing. Thank you to member MrBrowning for gifting it to me. If it's exposed the right way, and it seems to be as picky about exposure as slide film, you can get deep blacks almost like plate photography. Yes, things block up in the shadows, but I like that part too. This was 13.5 minutes in TD-16. I followed the digital truth chart for D76 times, temps, and agitation scheme (the last one I blew rather badly), and adding a little time for the difference between D76 and TD-16.

momus said:

It must be the reflections from the table top that the camera was resting on...

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I think you called it correctly. The flares in both images match the ceiling lights. And I agree about the 80s, it has some definite possibilities.

there you have it, glossy tabletop
depending on scene contrast, the 80S might need equalizing developer and shot at IE50 or so.
I like it as IR as well, you just need the ~700nm IR filter and you are in the game.

momus said:

.... Otherwise, very interesting film that loves clouds....

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Can you explain this a little more? Was the palm/cloud photograph made without a filter?

Hello,
I think the spots come from mechanical impact on the film by bending or some other pressure.

I go with the ref;ection off the table top - combined with the light pipe effect from the Polyester base.