Looking for some advice regarding my local lab results

[grotster]

I have been lurking here for a couple of months reading posts, but today I have some questions that I cannot anwer myself and am hoping that I can get some advice from people here from.... This is the scaenario.


My father was a professional photographer.
My father passed away recently and I have inherited his camera equipment.
I haven't shot film in ?25? years or so.
I went on a cruise to Alaska recently and took some of his equipment with me in the hope of getting some good shots... My bad is that I hadn't put any test rolls through the equipment that I took with me before going (the dates didn't allow for that).


That being said I am very dissapointed with the results that I got back from the lab upon my return. I can accept my lack of skill with shooting film and getting to know how these cameras are best used but I am now left questioning whether the cameras need work or if I need to find a new lab. I am looking for some insight here on the root cause of these issues. One camera is a Mamiya 645 Pro 1000 and the other a Hasselblad XPan.


This image was taken on the Mamiya 645, in total I shot 4 rolls of 120 film and each of these films has both of the vertical lines on every frame of the negative; the imperfections are also seen between frames on the negatives. You can see there are two vertical lines, one to the nearly far left of the frame, the other almost pretty dead on center which is less obvious.

I also took some shots with a Hasselblad Xpan, these have horizontal lines which the source totally bemuses me. I only took 1 film on this camera but all frames from this film have this issue.

I know that this equipment was working okay prior to me getting hold of it what are your impressions of these results?

Thx in advance

 

[removed account4]

hi

have you looked at the actual film to see if it is a film processing camera issue
or a scanner issue ?
not trying to be a smart Alec just ruling out possible things ..

 

[mr rusty]

Doesn't look like camera faults to me. These tend to be: light leaks - show up as white streaks on prints and black streaks on negs that usually extend outside frame area, shutter capping usually shows up as black bars, scratches - pretty obvious continuous lines across negs. This looks like processing images - maybe just on prints and negs might be fine. Look at negs with a magnifier. Perhaps have them printed again somewhere else?. Also shooting snow scenes is more difficult than most scenes as lots of white snow fools the meter to under expose. When shooting snow overexpose 1 stop as a guesstimate, or use an external meter.

 

[RobC]

xpan line looks very much like a scanner fault (bad scanner sensor). I can't tell from the 120 neg but its probably same fault. If you can't see the lines on the negs with a loupe then that will confirm its a scanner fault.

 

[darkosaric]

Welcome to APUG .

Try to scan the negative in 90 degrees opposite direction, and as other already stated - try to analyze the negative under the loupe.

 

[pentaxpete]

The lack of Contrast and Colour is UNDER-Exposure of the negatives -- you didn't allow for all the light toned sky and lots of white in the subjects -- not sure about the 'lines' though -- I don't get them with my processor here in England or when I do it myself as I do with my roll-films. Next time use gear that you KNOW and take time to TEST out your film cameras before going on an expensive trip !
PS : MY Dad was in the Royal Navy and lost HIS camera when his ship got torpedoed at Dunkirk 1940 trying to rescue the soldiers !

 

[Trail Images]

Welcome to APUG......

Try to scan the negative in 90 degrees opposite direction, and as other already stated - try to analyze the negative under the loupe.

The line on the one image looks like light leak or a scanning issue. Try scanning at another angle or even upside down from this placement to see if the streak moves or remains the same. I've had faint lines like this after a scan and it was the scanner that needed cleaning.

 

[Sirius Glass]

Welcome to APUG

Either the film processing or the film lacks color saturation.