just guessing but...bellows sag? well...maybe? I dunno.
Film holder leaks? If you put your neg back into the film holder in the orientation it was shot, do you see any correlation with the seals?
Sounds a lot like bellows sag. This is rarely a problem on 4x5 or even 5x7, but it becomes much more common on 8x10 and larger, where the bellows are huge, and exponentially heavier, making them more likely to droop mid-bellows.
One of my 'dorffs has the orig. leather bellows, and they do droop. When it happens there is complete mechanical vignetting, not a 2 stop loss of exposure.
Was there pre-exposure of most of the film before the final exposure? A darkroom light leak, a holder malfunction, or user error? A bad sheet of film (I, too, use Efke, though I'm sure Arista has less problems here).
What lens and what movements?
300mm Kodak Commercial Ektar. Lots of movements /QUOTE]
Tim, I use a 300 Commercial Ektar most of the time on the 810 Dorff. I've never had a problem with lens coverage except in very extreme cases of front tilt. I'm still betting on side bellows interference. The other possibility is a thin place on a bellows pleat. Have you checked the bellows for a light leak?
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