T-Max 100 & T-Max 400 Backing Issue and Ektachrome 100 Update

[pentaxuser]

I see a number 8 in your scan. .

Where is the number 8? Thanks

pentaxuser

 

[RattyMouse]

Where is the number 8? Thanks

pentaxuser

Look harder. It will come to you.

 

[pentaxuser]

Look harder. It will come to you.

I did look quite hard before but all I want is a rough idea as to which to look. It would probably have taken less words to tell me than your response did. Can anyone else help?

Thanks

pentaxuser

 

[MattKing]

I did look quite hard before but all I want is a rough idea as to which to look. It would probably have taken less words to tell me than your response did. Can anyone else help?

Thanks

pentaxuser

I don't see the 8, but I do see a slightly lighter, sideways "KOD" running up the base of the lamp into the area where the bulb is.

 

[Andrew O'Neill]

I see a vertical KOD on the base of the lamp. Not an 8.

 

[pentaxuser]

Thanks both. I thought I saw the outline of a number on the lamp base but it is very mottled and it looked more like a 6 than an 8. Now I examine that area closer and armed with KOD or kod(small case it looks to be) , I can see, I think, a lower case k and o but the d looks strange for a d. The problem is that in these situations I was afraid I was seeing something just because someone had said there was a number. The whole picture looks very mottled whereas in the earlier, as in many months ago earlier posts, the numbers were faint but were not really fuzzy as the number/letters appear to be here.

pentaxuser

 

[Ai Print]

Backing paper mottle is usually a sign of exposure to excess humidity - long a known potential issue with all 120 films. Often a result of insufficient warming up time from colder storage conditions.

+1, I have several rolls of film that were affected by the number imprinting but zero with the mottling. It does not mean the imprint issue did not exist with this roll of film but the severe mottling suggests it is far more than that if that at all.

 

[AgX]

I see a vertical KOD on the base of the lamp. Not an 8.

I likely have the most shitty display of you all but immediately I saw "Kodak" twice and an "8" and something that looks like fraktion of a "4".

 

[RattyMouse]

I did look quite hard before but all I want is a rough idea as to which to look. It would probably have taken less words to tell me than your response did. Can anyone else help?

Thanks

pentaxuser

You have one poor monitor to not be able to see this.

 

[Ai Print]

You have one poor monitor to not be able to see this.

Your last two comments have not exactly been kind in how you presented them. Any way you can be more respectful / helpful of what Pentaxuser is asking for?

Thanks!

 

[RattyMouse]

Your last two comments have not exactly been kind in how you presented them. Any way you can be more respectful / helpful of what Pentaxuser is asking for?

Thanks!

See post #108. Post #109 showed him exactly what he was looking for.

 

[Ai Print]

See post #108.

That is someone else’s reply, I am talking about yours.

Thanks and have a great weekend!

 

[pentaxuser]

Your last two comments have not exactly been kind in how you presented them. Any way you can be more respectful / helpful of what Pentaxuser is asking for?

Thanks!

Thanks Ai Print but they were not meant to be kind or helpful comments. I am not sure what the comments were trying to do but I can say that RattyMouse can at least be sure that I will not bother him again in asking for help. So I will not bother him again and that ensures that he need not be bothered in providing any answers. Isn't that what J. K Galbraith calls a "win/win" solution.

pentaxuser

 

[Lachlan Young]

+1, I have several rolls of film that were affected by the number imprinting but zero with the mottling. It does not mean the imprint issue did not exist with this roll of film but the severe mottling suggests it is far more than that if that at all.

Absolutely - the mottling can happen with just about any 120 film if poorly handled/ stored. I think there's a real need to educate people on what operator errors look like, because otherwise people just egg each other on as to who can hate most stupidly on the manufacturer of the product.

 

[Cropline]

KODAK appears just under the circle for the 8. KOD and what looks like a 6 is in the lamp base. KODAK appears between the picture frame-on the right-and the glass vase. What looks like a 4 is touching the picture frame on the bottom right corner.

 

[Bill Burk]

I've contacted Kodak Alaris, will report back when they reply. Here is an example frame

What frame is this? As I have found the offset image may bear no relation to the actual negative number.