Analog film photography and cameras

I worked in a high street lab for a long time, and this looks distinctly like roller damage to me – the rollers in a lot of industrial C41 machines get progressively harder as the film moves through the machine, with the last being a rock hard rubber squeegey (sp?) before the film goes through the drying chamber. These squeegeys (sp?) are usually rinsed daily, but are often not. When not, they accumulate chemical build ups that cause the the wrinkle and perish, often leaving uniform areas of wetness or chemically smearing on films...

In short, change labs!

I had same idea when I was brushing my teeth! I don't ever remember being asked to clean the rollers to be honest. That would explain much. exactly as you say, now I think about it, the ones closer to the dryer were slightly marked and cracked. Sorta like a really
Old tyre that's been left out too long.

Moar crack den mattresses please! The double stack is fascinating. Reckon they're spotless underneath? You should jump on them

Little bit of Hasselblad action from me holidayz

Another one

OK last one promise. Enjoying dredging my old blog...

^ ..really like this one. That unsharp fence in the foreground is wicked..

Were the damaged frame at the leader end or the tail end of the roll?

Maybe in-camera?

Wiggly stripes were very present at the end of the roll, guess I'll see them again when I'll scan the first frames
(like, the ends of the film that are hangeing furthest down - film is definately hung up in the middle the way it's bent).

There's always a little in-camera dust, but have not seen these mentioned wiggly stripes before, so no.

Moar crack den mattresses please! The double stack is fascinating. Reckon they're spotless underneath? You should jump on them

Will post one or two more soonish.
I guess if they were spotless people would not have thrown them out.
And I quit jumping on things since I jumped on what looked like a huge, soft pile of leaves,
which turned out to be a huge pile of rubbisch and sand, only covered with some inches of leaves...

Oh, and in other news, when shooting Pentax MX, set it to "100X" when advancing film, so you don't have to wait for long timed exposures to end,
but do remember to set back to "auto", especially with an 135mm lens and rather expensive Portra 800 -
just wasted half a fucking roll, nice light, and some great moments portraying someone headbang.gif

On the 10th December 2013 5:00PM
I was walking down Oxford street towards Oxford Circus tube station, as I walked pass the bus stop outside Primark, I saw a strip of negative on the floor. Then I picked it up and i scanned it at home. The photos were taken in trafalgar square. so, yea.
here are the photos, scratched negative
http://i.imgur.com/lryyAb2.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/75NO235.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/fNF3YXI.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/eZbbXvG.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/u0JnU0M.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/IwMkJpD.jpg

all you need is a storyline and the Tate Modern will be banging down your door

are you amelie ?

just got 10 rolls back from Colourstream, fairly happy with most of them, this particular shot is super grainy (agfa 200) so many more to come from my trip to america, i'm gonna be trying to post a small selection or single image everyday on my tumblr.

http://hpx93.tumblr.com/
Links will also go on my twitter feed @hpx93

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Finding negatives is awesome.
Something very mysterious about it.

Yea, though I'd rather be finding SanDisk Extreme Pro cards, to be honest.

again if anyone is interested, i have the other 9 pages at this link

https://www.flickr.com/photos/34036584@N05/sets/72157640868736005/

Mattresses

Untitled by 40 skid patches, on Flickr

I may have already posted that.

Put some Delta 4200 through the gr1 the other day, so grainy but I do like it.

Untitled by 40 skid patches, on Flickr

Mattresses

Haha, neat!
Love the graffiti, too..

plastic camera

Really like both shots, is that the vivitar?

Yeah. I like it but it really needs a lot of light so who knows when I'll have a chance to use it again...

I can imagine, fixed 1/100 and f10?

supposedly something like that but it seems darker actually

cheap 400 iso / mju-ll

Fuji C200 / Mju-II