Perhaps it is gross overexposure due to a sticky shutter. The texture in the sky might be digital artifacts from the scanning process.
Perhaps it is gross overexposure due to a sticky shutter. The texture in the sky might be digital artifacts from the scanning process.
The lower print lacks contrast. Are they printed with the same exposure and paper grade? What do the negatives look like?
Given the description, it sounds like gross overexposure. Since there is no evidence of light leaks, it could be one of the following options:
* Shutter didn't close properly
* Shutter is way off calibration (unlikely due to the huge amount of overexposure)
* You mistakenly opened the shutter into preview mode before re-inserting the dark slide.
My money is on option #3.
If the shutter had been left open then exposure would have been controlled by the removal and reinsertion of the dark slide, usually resulting in some visible side to side unevenness in the negative. Also, exposure by dark slide removal has a tendency to be show some camera movement in the subject due to the pulling/pushing of the dark slide, but none of that is obvious in the bad shot.
It would also have been blurry as a drunk's vision on New Years Eve.
Regards
Marty
Or forgot to close lens down after composing for the horizontal. That would take care of camera shake that happens if one does not close the lens (preview). I tried to see if the DoF changed, but could not.
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