Has anyone had this stuff come pre-fogged?
I just developed my first shots with this film and found it fogged in neat bands on 3 sides of the film. At first I thought this could be light leaking into the film holders' felt light trap and going down the sides, but then I saw that it's the notch-end that's fogged...the plain end--the one by the light trap--is fine. So it's not the light trap. If it's leaking into film holders, it must be around the darkslide and flap-end. But the sides are fogged even on the rebate.
I developed an unexposed sheet out of a film holder and saw the same pattern....and this film holder had never been outside my darkroom. When I loaded the film holders, I slipped the film out of the black light-proof Efke bag, directly into the film holder. I then placed the film holders in a black light-proof bag from 5x7 paper.
I developed a sheet straight out of the Efke packaging, and found the same exact fogging pattern...notch end and both long sides, with the un-notched end perfectly fine. And here's the kicker...the sheets are packed in the black light-proof bag with the notched end inward. So if I had accidentally let some IR into my darkroom while I was loading the film holders, it doesn't make sense that the long sides of the film and the side of the film furthest from the opening would be fogged, but the short edge facing the opening of the bag would be unfogged.
Has anyone ever had film that was fogged from the factory?
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