I am shooting through my first box of film as I evaluate equipment and learn to develop at home. The first 2 shots (day interiors) were developed by a friend in a Patterson tank - no problems. The next six (day exteriors) I did by myself, also in a Patterson tank; Initial loading into holders and then into tank was done in a converted bathroom. Scans of all the negatives I developed have a blue cast which worsens in the center, but it doesn't appear to have a drastic effect on the negative's density as in shots I have with leaky film holders. Am I seeing the results of a light leak from when I was loading into my tank, some sort of mistake in the dev process (timing, temperature), a bellows leak that wasn't evident inside, or something else? I developed two at a time, folded inward along the long side and secured with rubber bands. I have two exposures left in the box that I can use for testing.
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