Marks on negative - where from?

[AndreiF]

Hi all! I got recently the same mark again and again on some negatives from my recent voyage, that I don t know what it is or comes from. Photos atacheted Any ideas???
Thank you!

 

[Anon Ymous]

Looks like fiber/hair to me that was stuck somewhere in camera, in front of the film.

 

[koraks]

Looks like fiber/hair to me that was stuck somewhere in camera, in front of the film.

Exactly. Also, it seems to be the same filament in some of the negatives. Clean out your camera.

 

[Kino]

Gate hair. In film cinematography, one of the jobs of the Assistant Cameraman is to pull the lens after each take and examine the aperture with a strong flashlight to make sure a fiber or hair hasn't dropped into the gate and stuck there... It happens often enough to have become standard operating procedure.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

It's not a hair it's some weird barbed thing..almost looks like a twig off a prickly bush. This can happen when changing film in the field.

 

[Kino]

It's not a hair it's some weird barbed thing..almost looks like a twig off a prickly bush. This can happen when changing film in the field.

AFAIK, "Gate hair" is a generic term, or we used it as such... Anyway, it's crap in your camera; clean it out!

 

[MattKing]

It appears to be on the move in the camera. Some of the images are sharp - as if the debris was against the film - while others are less distinct - as if the debris is separated from the film by a distance.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

It looks like an insects leg... I look at it in PS. It's all barby! Creeeeepyyyyyy!

 

[Kino]

Check for giant beetle remains...

 

[Agulliver]

I once shot a roll in m Kiev 6C, only afterwards realising that there was a damned spider's web between the lens and the focal plane shutter!

Definitely looks like something inside the camera.

 

[AndreiF]

Hey guys, thanks for the replies! After cleaning and inspecting the camera I found this inside the lens in between the lenses. It may be this the guilty one?

 

[koraks]

I think it's more likely closer to the film gate. But cleaning that one speck won't hurt either of course.

 

[trendland]

Hey guys, thanks for the replies! After cleaning and inspecting the camera I found this inside the lens in between the lenses. It may be this the guilty one?

And your lens is a zoom lens - right?

with regards

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

I don't see anything on the lens other than white specs... The foreign object is kinda moving around so I think it's closer to the film gate. Somewhere out there there's a spider hobbling around on seven legs.

 

[George Collier]

Something like this happened to me 15 - 20 years ago with a Nikon F2. A hair, or something like a hair was hanging out near the lower left corner of the film opening in the body. Just far enough away from the film to be out of focus.
At film change, it was easy to see and blow out.

 

[AndreiF]

And your lens is a zoom lens - right?

with regards

No, it s the 50 mm

 

[AndreiF]

I don't see anything on the lens other than white specs... The foreign object is kinda moving around so I think it's closer to the film gate. Somewhere out there there's a spider hobbling around on seven legs.

It s not moving too much, on the negs gets in the same spot. I found a very tiny "hair" looking like fabric, stuck in the wall close to de gate. I took it out and took some shots, later today I ll develop to see if is still there and let you know guys!
Thanks!

 

[AndreiF]

Something like this happened to me 15 - 20 years ago with a Nikon F2. A hair, or something like a hair was hanging out near the lower left corner of the film opening in the body. Just far enough away from the film to be out of focus.
At film change, it was easy to see and blow out.

I have it on several films from the same trip. I ll see today if it was solve