What the **** happened here?

[Mats_A]

Yesterday i developed 2 rolls of TMax 100. Taken with same camera, Nikon FA.
Developed in XTol 1+1, 8 min, 20C

It looks like the sprocket holes bled in to the pictures. It is not on every negative but on enough to almost spoil a whole roll.

Is it a light leak? Mistake in development? Aliens?

Advice very much appreciated.

r

Mats

 

[Stephen Frizza]

light leak during development?

 

[Jeff Kubach]

I'm not sure myself but I geuss some light leak also.

Jeff

 

[Ian Grant]

It's definitely a light leak. Check the light but the way it's happened fogging through sprocket holes show it's not happened in the camera.

If you use Paterson tanks it's possible you used the wrong center column, there's two columns that are close in length from different style tanks.

Also was there any chance of stray light as you loaded the films, a small on/off indicator light on an enlarger timer or something similar.

Ian

 

[Mats_A]

Thanks. I now know what happened. I intended at first to use a Paterson tank but the second roll stuck (ball bearing) so I had to switch to my SS tank. In the meantime i put the loaded roll inside the Paterson with the lid on but whithout the center column. Stupid me. So light leaked in through the lid as I turned on the light to find the SS tank (sounds like something from a WWII movie).

Ok. Mystery solved. Culprit found. As per normal, I'm an idiot. Silver lining is that nobody paid me for these pictures and the camera is OK.

Thanks all.

r

mats

 

[Rick A]

Anyone seen where I left my knitting needles

 

[Mats_A]

Anyone seen where I left my knitting needles

Shut up Rick!

 

[Existing Light]

As per normal, I'm an idiot.

Thanks all.

r

mats

Whenever I do something silly in the darkroom, I say something like this out loud, but with the addition of enough profanity to make someone outside my darkroom think I was reciting a scene from The King's Speech (if you havent seen the movie, go see it and you'll know what i'm talking about )

 

[hrst]

I usually sing a song I have developed for these kind of purposes, the lyrics go like this (translated to English):
"I am stupid, I am stupid, I am stupid, I am stupid" and so on!

 

[Christopher Walrath]

Yeah, that's pretty much how it goes over here as well.

 

[Mats_A]

Thanks. Feels good to be in the company of fellow morons .

r

mats

 

[GRHazelton]

Talkin' 'bout stupid...

Back when the earth first cooled I was maybe 13 and new to film developing. I had mixed up developer and fixer, and foolishly hadn't labeled either, since the fixer had that fine dill-pickle odor. I load the tank, an old Kokak apron job (anyone remember them?), pour in the developer, and note through my cold-impaired nose that dill-pickle odor! Yep, cleared that film in seconds! Believe that I labeled stuff after that!

 

[Rick A]

Shut up Rick!

You shoulda never started that thread!