Rollei Digibase CN200 - blue end to 2 rolls.

mr.datsun said:

@ Don Promillo. Yes, I see your point about not buying the film. But for one thing I like it (when it works) and for another I'd like to know if it can be solved. Obviously switching is an option and I;ve just ordered to Portra 160 to try.

@railwayman3. I've contacted the lab. Still waiting for the manufacturer.

New observation. The second to last frame of my latest roll has a hard line horizontally across the middle, from the edges inwards, of the blue colouration. I've not seen or noticed this before. My gut feeling is that this mark is not consistent with light piping because it has a hard edge?

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Hard to say, but i would expect that if there was any issue with the film, that you would see this throughout the whole film in random places.
Being at the ends and at the edges inwards as you say seems consistent with light piping to me.

And i agree with you I love this film, so those saying to switch the films, we are shooting this stuff for a reason.
I shoot 35mm and loose a few frames.

Wittner-cinetec tell me that they even put their films in the black canisters in the dark, so i can only assume that my films are getting exposed at the lab, or when loading, and i loaded my camera in the dark, so i know it has to be the lab.
Ive got a friend who has a darkroom and im getting him to unload my roll in the dark, so this will verify my claims.

Nzoomed said:

Hard to say, but i would expect that if there was any issue with the film, that you would see this throughout the whole film in random places.
Being at the ends and at the edges inwards as you say seems consistent with light piping to me.

And i agree with you I love this film, so those saying to switch the films, we are shooting this stuff for a reason.
I shoot 35mm and loose a few frames.

Wittner-cinetec tell me that they even put their films in the black canisters in the dark, so i can only assume that my films are getting exposed at the lab, or when loading, and i loaded my camera in the dark, so i know it has to be the lab.
Ive got a friend who has a darkroom and im getting him to unload my roll in the dark, so this will verify my claims.

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@Nzoomed thanks for your post. Looking forward to what you find out re. unloading in the dark.

QUESTION: If I developed this film as B&W - should I still see the light-piping on the negs? Or would it be too subtle?

That might be a test of whether it was me or the lab

mr.datsun said:

QUESTION: If I developed this film as B&W - should I still see the light-piping on the negs? Or would it be too subtle?

That might be a test of whether it was me or the lab

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Give it a go and i would expect you will see some indication, it just wont obviously have any colour, but it will appear exposed as if light leaked.

I now confess I did this by accident two weeks ago. After a long shoot, I had 3 rolls of film – a bit tired, I grabbed the one I thought was PANF and put it through R09. Took me a while to work out what was wrong and then had to refix it for 3 times the usual time, but I realised that I had processed CN200 as b&w. I can see no light leakage on the first few frames. I actually liked the result, so I will try it again to make sure.

OK, here is a bit of an update, i bought a bulk roll last year, as thats all Maco had left in stock and finally got round to shooting and developing a roll.

Im getting the same blue tinge at each end of the roll and will try and grab some scans later.
basically this is light piping, as its only at each end of the film.

I loaded mine 100% in the dark, and the blue is mainly around the sprocket holes.
Unfortunately i had to take it to a lab, next time i will ask them if they can unload into the mini lab in low light if possible.
I have a friend who may be able to process it in a tank by hand so that will confirm if its light piping or not.

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I do however find this film overexposes easily and these shots below appear over exposed, I wonder if i should try shooting at the specified ISO400 rather than at ISO200 like Rollei market the film as?
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This one was near the start of the film and the light piping is evident
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The colors are a bit odd, a slight green tint in the pictures without snow. Looks a bit like cross-processed film, but it could just be the scanner software's automatic color balance messing up.

Arctic amateur said:

The colors are a bit odd, a slight green tint in the pictures without snow. Looks a bit like cross-processed film, but it could just be the scanner software's automatic color balance messing up.

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I reckon the blue tint on alot of them is because the photo shop would have scanned them with all their regular C41 films and has compensated with the orange mask.

If you do a regular scan, this should not be an issue.