Lars Åke Vinberg
26-Jul-2004, 20:57
I picked up some 110 sheets of 8x10" VS and RVP here in Melbourne yesterday (E6Plus is a top-notch lab, by the way, very warm recommendations).
Some sheets of VS had peculiar defects that neither I nor the lab staff were able to explain: There was a very fine blue-white pattern of dots, different on different sheets. Examined closely, the pattern was a series of evenly spaced dots, as if a pulsating blue-white laser has shone on the film.
From reasoning we eliminated the following factors: - development (no streaks, no scratches, pattern too fine and artificial for a light leak) - X-ray (pattern was different for each affected sheet although they had been stored together, and pattern was very fine and clearly defined, far from fogging) - light leaks in camera, film holder, or change tent
The only explanation we could come up with was a factory defect.
Any ideas?
Some sheets of VS had peculiar defects that neither I nor the lab staff were able to explain: There was a very fine blue-white pattern of dots, different on different sheets. Examined closely, the pattern was a series of evenly spaced dots, as if a pulsating blue-white laser has shone on the film.
From reasoning we eliminated the following factors: - development (no streaks, no scratches, pattern too fine and artificial for a light leak) - X-ray (pattern was different for each affected sheet although they had been stored together, and pattern was very fine and clearly defined, far from fogging) - light leaks in camera, film holder, or change tent
The only explanation we could come up with was a factory defect.
Any ideas?