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snowcat · Joined: 15 Jun 2010 Posts: 5 Location: Brussels - Belgium

Hi,
I made my first shots with a speed graphic. Unfortunately I discoverd 2 vertical lines on my processed sheet. They are at 1cm from each border. The sheet was not correctly inserted. The emulsion was at the wrong side. Would that be the reason? It was a Ilford delta 100 sheet. Some say it the lens board. Other say it's the holder? Couls somebody help me?
http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=11165316

Les · Joined: 09 May 2001 Posts: 2682 Location: Detroit, MI

You've got some irregular dense area near the light trap as well (right side). Without seeing your set up with the film holder and dev tanks, it's hard to say, but I have to wonder if it isn't a processing error.

It can't be the lens board.
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pv17vv · Posted: Tue Jun 22, 2010 4:44 pm Post subject:

Dear Compatriot

,
Since you put the sheet the wrong way, it is irrelevant to guess what happened.
Do another pic with the sheet correctly inserted and tell us.
Cheers.
G

snowcat · Joined: 15 Jun 2010 Posts: 5 Location: Brussels - Belgium

Thank you guys! I'll start doing it the right way and w'ell see

snowcat · Joined: 15 Jun 2010 Posts: 5 Location: Brussels - Belgium

Dear all,
I loaded the sheet in the right way... but then again, those lines appear.

. Does any one have an idea?

http://photo.net/photodb/photo?photo_id=11662259

Pierre

45PSS · Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2010 4:13 pm Post subject:

How was the film processed?
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1banjo · Joined: 16 Nov 2008 Posts: 492 Location: kansas

hey Pierre
HOW BLACK is the inside of your camera some times if
you have some thing shinney on the inside you can get a
Ghost Reflection ! get out some flat black pant & go to work
on any thing shinney!
banjo

pv17vv · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 5:42 am Post subject:

This is what I thought too.
The lines are much too thin to be a bellows/holder light leak IMHO.

snowcat · Joined: 15 Jun 2010 Posts: 5 Location: Brussels - Belgium

45PSS · Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2010 8:23 am Post subject:

Different film holders also? Same lens/shutter?

The lines seem too consistent to be reflections but I cannot rule that out either. In a darkroom with the light off, the focus panel removed, bellows fully extended and the or one of the lens/shutter used in the questionable photos attached put a 2 AA cell mini mag flash light or similar inside the bellows and look for light coming from around the shutter and or lens board. Next remove the lens board and reinstall the focus panel, install a film holder, retract the bellows only enough to easily shine the flash light around the edges of the back and film holder and check for any hint of light coming from around the back or film holder. Weak light leaks will look like dim yellow dots or streaks, strong ones will look white.

I have had pin holes in bellows put secondary exposures on the film. Light leaks do not always cause flair like streaks.
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snowcat · Joined: 15 Jun 2010 Posts: 5 Location: Brussels - Belgium

Dear collegues,

I think I found the reason of those vertical lines on the sheets. I used another lens and the lines didn't appear. They might have been some sort of reflection of the camera's rail through the lens I used.

Thank you all for your inputs in that difficult question.