strange images on leader area? Ilford hp5

[technopoptart]

I just developed some Hp5 and right after the leader i found a blurry image of a 35mm camera being loaded with what looks like the word "AGFA". Any one else find preexisting images or partial images on their film. its still drying so i will post a scan later.

 

[Pflaumesaft]

This would be great topic for Halloween story sharing.

Where did you get the film?

Also, I would have been great if you provided a scan before posting.

 

[Billy Axeman]

I often find blurry images at the begin of my film because I am tripping the shutter to advance to frame one.

 

[MattKing]

I have to ask - were you using an Agfa camera?

 

[Billy Axeman]

Another possible question is, was there an Agfa camera or film box in front of you when you were loading the film.

 

[pentaxuser]

Wow I can't wait to see the image and hear a bit more detail.

pentaxuser

 

[foc]

Let's see the scanned image and a shot of the negative (including sprocket holes).

 

[pentaxuser]

technopopart, we're waiting with baited breath.

pentaxuser

 

[Horatio]

Not holding my breath on this one. Just sayin'.

 

[pentaxuser]

Not holding my breath on this one. Just sayin'.

Well the OP has been a member here since 2007 and seems to have posted 20 times on a range of "normal" stuff with apparently quite long periods of absence so not a major poster. However this time he has got something really interesting to show us. This thread of his is quite different from anything he had contributed before. A real eyebrow raiser of a thread .

pentaxuser

 

[Billy Axeman]

Be prepared to wait a few years then. I don't understand the excitement. What I said, it is quite normal you find blurred images just after the leader.

 

[Horatio]

Be prepared to wait a few years then. I don't understand the excitement. What I said, it is quite normal you find blurred images just after the leader.

Lol

 

[pentaxuser]

Be prepared to wait a few years then. I don't understand the excitement. What I said, it is quite normal you find blurred images just after the leader.

Maybe, Billy, you have discovered the simple cause of what the OP thought was an almost mystical occurrence as in the case of the "Cottingley Fairies" and now you have given the explanation the OP is totally deflated and is in shock that it was that simple. On the other hand he has been here, on and off, since 2007 so I wonder why, if you are right, he hasn't has blurry images in the past, the cause of which he already knows?

It still may be, as Hamlet says, that there are more things in heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy Can it be just by chance that we even have a Horatio as a contributor

pentaxuser

 

[Billy Axeman]

If you want pictures of ghosts or orbs (discussed on UFO fora) put a camera on a tripod with a timing device and shoot a roll during the night. Repeat until you have success. Prepare the sessions with meditation to attract the supernatural beings, and start a new thread on Photrio "Post your photos of ghosts here".
Because we are here on a mixed workflow forum may I add that such a procedure is easier with a digital camera, but you never know if film has some special properties for this kind of activity considering most known ghost photo's are indeed on film and I am not aware of examples taken digital.

 

[MattKing]

technopopart, we're waiting with baited breath.

pentaxuser

Have you been eating worms???

 

[Wallendo]

Having recently finished watch the TV series "Man in the High Castle", it is obvious the original poster is living in an alternative reality where Germany won World War II - apparently in the universe, HP5+ is made by AGFA.


For any not aware of this show, it is an Amazon series set in a parallel universe in which Germany built the first atomic bomb. A recurring plot point is the existence of 35mm film documenting that the allies actually won.

 

[pentaxuser]

, it is obvious the original poster is living in an alternative reality where Germany won World War II - apparently in the universe, HP5+ is made by AGFA..

I detect a lot of scepticism here which I admit I share but I'd have expected that such a person living in an alternative reality would show signs of obsessive behaviour which usually means being like a dog with a bone in terms of interacting or at the very least watching how the thread unfolds. However in this case he hasn't bee seen since about 50 minutes after his post. This is his first post of a "strange" nature that I can find in his 13 years here

It is all very strange but here it might just end unless he rejoins the thread.

Matt, you've batted my spelling of bated out of the ground as they say in cricket with an instructive and humorous comment. Now tell me, do you get inflammable liquid from Canadian petrol pumps as we do from British pumps or is it stuff you wash your car with as I understand they do in the U.S? Do you eat jelly with ice cream as we do or spread it on your toast? English is a wonderful language, isn't it?


pentaxuser

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Petrol out of our pumps is flammable. I would never wash my car with it. I put jello on my icecream. Jam, and jelly on my toast. Do you still have a bucket of sand at your petrol stations? By the way, I make the best chip butty...

 

[pentaxuser]

Dear, oh dear Andrew. So there are no inflammable liquids in petrol pumps and jello with ice cream.Well I am disappointed. Looks like the rot began when Newfoundland finally switched to right side of the road in 1947 as you pointed out to me.

pentaxuser

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Dear, oh dear Andrew. So there are no inflammable liquids in petrol pumps and jello with ice cream.Well I am disappointed. Looks like the rot began when Newfoundland finally switched to right side of the road in 1947 as you pointed out to me.

pentaxuser

 

[technopoptart]

LOL false alarm, so this is a new camera model to me and in the past i have not had to click the shutter when winding to frame 1 as far as i remember, I have in the past never had more than 36 images on 35mm because of this. This time i had the lens cap off and a youtube video open. When it dried i was able to see the edge of the screen and the plants behind it. i only recently restatred using 35 mm since 2006, i had only been shooting an occasional roll of 120 the last few years, and not even developing them myself for a while.

 

[foc]

Thanks for the update.
I am glad it was youtube and not something from "the other side".

 

[pentaxuser]

Thanks for the update.
I am glad it was youtube and not something from "the other side".

Yes I was beginning to wonder if later in the film there was a picture of a caveman like creature tearing at the cowling on an aircraft engine at 10,000 resulting in Captain Kirk's breakdown after he has walked on the wing to shoot the "gremlin"

In Scotland there is a version of "The Twilight Zone " It's called "The Gloamin' Zone" and takes place on the "bonnie banks of Clyde"

As a fellow Celt, foc , I hope you may appreciate this

pentaxuser

 

[foc]

But of course, my Celtic friend.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

Yes I was beginning to wonder if later in the film there was a picture of a caveman like creature tearing at the cowling on an aircraft engine at 10,000 resulting in Captain Kirk's breakdown after he has walked on the wing to shoot the "gremlin"

In Scotland there is a version of "The Twilight Zone " It's called "The Gloamin' Zone" and takes place on the "bonnie banks of Clyde"

As a fellow Celt, foc , I hope you may appreciate this

pentaxuser

My dad, who is from Scotland, wore that song out on one of his Andy Stewart records!