[Frameworks] Film Woes

[Christopher Ball]

Clear doesn't sound like x-ray.  X rays expose the film, and not evenly.
The only time I had it happen to me it looked more like variable fog and
intermittent lightning bolt type patterns.  Do you have a bit of unexposed
(not xrayed) raw film left, which you could shoot off 50 feet and test with
your development process?  Then you could at least narrow that down to xray
or development.

On Tue, Apr 20, 2021 at 9:38 PM Scott Dorsey <kludge at panix.com> wrote:

> Pull a sample and process as negative.... just give it a few minutes in
> the first developer and wash and fix.  If you get something totally black,
> then the film is fogged.
>
> All kinds of things can go wrong with the reversal process, but not much
> can go wrong with the negative process and most of the things that can go
> wrong result in low density instead of high density.  So take some film
> that isn't right at the beginning (where you know it's fogged) and do a
> test as negative.
>
> And... always get DO NOT X-RAY stickers to put on bags of film, and ask
> for a hand-inspect if you're not willing to fedex it to arrive when you do.
> --scott
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