crofi_annan
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I am so upset!!
I have just developed my first ever film, Ilford Delta BW 400, which I took with my recently acquired Nikon FE.
As a beginner I certainly did not expect the world...but I am not sure whether the results are solely due to my inexperience or whether there is a serious problem with my camera.
I have negatives and also an A4 print of the negatives on photo paper, and these problems are clearly visible on both:
1. At regular intervals I have a semicircle of light grey. It appears on every frame, but not in exactly the same location on each picture, but regularly throughout the film. It reaches almost halfway up the frame and is about two thirds of the width of the frame.
2. In four places, there is a line of almost perfect white from the top to the bottom of the frame, not between frames but randomly in them, with a width of about one-fifth of a frame.
3. Some of the pictures are sharp and great (bar the grey semicircles) so I know the camera is mechanically competent.
4. I took ten pictures from the Top of the Rock in New York, on a bright sunny day, with film speed set correctly to 400, exposure set to automatic and deliberately used a range of apertures to experiment. ALL of these pictures are pretty much totally black.
Does anybody recognise any of these symptoms as a) problems that can occur with films (my film was WELL within its expiry date), b) problems that can occur with the camera itself, or c) some serious user errors on my part?
Any advice (apart from taking my camera in for a service which I will be doing at my next possibility) would be VERY gratefully received...
Regards
Caroline
I have just developed my first ever film, Ilford Delta BW 400, which I took with my recently acquired Nikon FE.
As a beginner I certainly did not expect the world...but I am not sure whether the results are solely due to my inexperience or whether there is a serious problem with my camera.
I have negatives and also an A4 print of the negatives on photo paper, and these problems are clearly visible on both:
1. At regular intervals I have a semicircle of light grey. It appears on every frame, but not in exactly the same location on each picture, but regularly throughout the film. It reaches almost halfway up the frame and is about two thirds of the width of the frame.
2. In four places, there is a line of almost perfect white from the top to the bottom of the frame, not between frames but randomly in them, with a width of about one-fifth of a frame.
3. Some of the pictures are sharp and great (bar the grey semicircles) so I know the camera is mechanically competent.
4. I took ten pictures from the Top of the Rock in New York, on a bright sunny day, with film speed set correctly to 400, exposure set to automatic and deliberately used a range of apertures to experiment. ALL of these pictures are pretty much totally black.
Does anybody recognise any of these symptoms as a) problems that can occur with films (my film was WELL within its expiry date), b) problems that can occur with the camera itself, or c) some serious user errors on my part?
Any advice (apart from taking my camera in for a service which I will be doing at my next possibility) would be VERY gratefully received...
Regards
Caroline