What's going on with this negative?

hospadar

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Shot a very expired (1995) roll of fomapan 400 (totally unknown storage, but almost certainly not refrigerated/frozen) and developed in rodinal (1/50). Looks like mold maybe? Any chance this has to do with bad development of some kind (my first time using rodinal but never seen anything remotely like this).

 

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Since the marks are on the trees and bushes, the problem is in the emulsion.
 

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Sirius Glass said:
Since the marks are on the trees and bushes, the problem is in the emulsion.
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Albeit most likely due to interaction with the backing. When I've seen film that looked like this, I wound up concluding it was due to humidity (can happen if frozen film is unsealed while still cold) and/or fungus growth on the emulsion.
 

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Had to share, most of the shots were pretty much ruined but the effect is really pretty cool with a couple of the shots

 
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