MF (6x4.5,6x6,6x7,6x9,6x12) B&W film images sharing

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[Old_Dick]

Two gold stars. Well done.

[David Schaller]

Try a long (5 to 10 minute) presoak before the developer if film has excessively dried (from being on a long flight)... The coating process (which I suspect is a thin ooze coming out of a # of jet nozzles, like little streams of toothpaste), then squeezed flat with a roller, produces a overlapping strip pattern, when overdried soaks a little unevenly, with slightly harder/softer areas that absorb developer unevenly... The presoak will "fluff" the emulsion evenly for even absorption...
At worst, you can see a "corduroy" pattern developed into some very dried/old roll films, I suspect is a relic from the coating process... (This pattern changes with different formats of films...)

Steve K

Thanks Steve. I usually do a presoak about that long, and I don't think I neglected to in this instance. I actually woke up the other morning with an idea of what may have caused the problem. I developed this roll by itself in a two roll tank, and put it on the bottom, when I think I should have put it on the top, above the empty reel. So maybe the empty reel draining onto the reel with film, after agitation, caused more agitation in those bands.
Thanks to everyone who have chimed in on this!
Dave

[LabRat]

Thanks Steve. I usually do a presoak about that long, and I don't think I neglected to in this instance. I actually woke up the other morning with an idea of what may have caused the problem. I developed this roll by itself in a two roll tank, and put it on the bottom, when I think I should have put it on the top, above the empty reel. So maybe the empty reel draining onto the reel with film, after agitation, caused more agitation in those bands.
Thanks to everyone who have chimed in on this!
Dave

Does your film travel through the camera horizontally or vertically??? What I described runs along the length of the film... (I assume vertically...)

Excess drying will do this...

Steve K

[chassis]

This is great. Might be fun to play with a longer aspect ratio crop on this.

[David Schaller]

Does your film travel through the camera horizontally or vertically??? What I described runs along the length of the film... (I assume vertically...)

Excess drying will do this...

Steve K

It travels horizontally, from right to left, in a Perkeo II.
Thanks again,
Dave

[tuco]

The light coming through the hat sure made for a weird look.


The Judge by tuco, on Flickr

[Fangel]

Hasselblad 503cw / cfe 80mm / hp5

[Axelwik]

Like it a lot.

[dodphotography]

Mundane moments at home.

SWC




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