What went wrong?

[athanasius80]

I went to the beach to shoot a roll for the November Folding Camera Challenge... and this is what I got.

Camera: Kodak Tourist 620

Film: Kodak Plus-X 120 respooled in changing bag, exposed at ISO 100

Developer: W2D2+ at 74 degrees (my tap water temp) for 6 minutes, Patterson 120 tank, normal agitation.

Does this look like a light leak or kinked film in the tank?

Yes I know the proof sheet and scan are bad, I just wanted a quickie to illustrate the problem.
Thanks!

 

[Claire Senft]

My guess would be that it happened as a part of respooling the film.

 

[David A. Goldfarb]

Could be a bit of both from those last frames, but I bet the bellows is separated from the camera body.

 

[Lee L]

Looks like a light leak in the camera to me. It covers the same half of the frame each time, has different densities in different frames (which means the frames were subject to different amounts of light between exposures), and the "edge" pattern across the middle of each frame appears to be consistent, with some sort of consistently placed fiber shaped shadows intruding into the lighter side where light leaked. My money says it's a hole in the bellows with a shadow cast by the next bellows fold, and shadows of bellows fibers being cast onto the film. The frames with the brighter lines got more direct light through the pinhole from the sun or some other very bright source.

Lee

I put a white dot to the right of a couple of the more prominent and consistent "fiber shadows" I'm seeing in each frame.

 

[athanasius80]

Bingo! Light leaks all along one bellows fold. Damnit! Thanks guys.

 

[ricksplace]

There are threads on here about how to fix bellows with light leaks.