Re: weird flare on film?

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From: Sandy King (sanking@CLEMSON.EDU)
Date: 09/24/02-02:31:49 PM Z


Shannon wrote:

>>Shannon, the marks are from loading the film - either when placed in the
>>holder (4x5) or when placed onto the developing reels 35/2-1/4. Too much
>>pressure with the thumb causes the film to crease and the result is what
>>you describe.
>
>
>Could this happen even with 8x10 film?
>
>--shannon

It can happen with film of any size I believe. I recently saw this
kind of arc on a sheet of 12X20 film that was kinked at some point
in handling, pehaps in loading in the holder or in loading into the
tube for developing.

Sandy King

>
>>
>>Nick
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Shannon Stoney" <sstoney@pdq.net>
>>To: <alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca>
>>Sent: Tuesday, September 24, 2002 12:43 PM
>>Subject: weird flare on film?
>>
>>> Today I was trying to print a negative that had some strange kind of
>>> arc-shaped marks on it. At first I thought it was caused by the
>>> glass of the printing frame, so I cleaned it again. But no, it is in
>>> the negative, and not on the surface, but evidently part of the
>>> image. Is it some sort of flare? On the print it looks as if
>>> somebody took a white china marker and made semi-circular marks about
>> > a half inch in length, somewhat concentric to each other.
>> >
>> > --shannon
>> >
>> >

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