Topic: Can you identify these weird marks?

[LT]

I've found something on a few frames of film that I've not come across before - see below for pics.  It is very odd.  I can find nothing in the film chamber of the camera that might have caused them.  They are only on 3 successive frames on one roll of 120 and on one of the frames, it is blurred, so I suspect some kind of foreign particle at large ... I cant see that it would have happened during development.  It's odd that these have shown up on the frames I took of a reportedly haunted mausoleum, but nowhere else on the film.  spooky.

Any thoughts?

[Darnley]

Might this be a Holga you used? Could be a piece of one of the foam inserts working it's way through the camera.
Similar thing just happened to me. In my case, the entire foam piece broke loose and left all kinds of stuff
on the film on it's journey through the camera.

[Heather]

Looks like a scrap of sponge. Is the camera clean? Any sponge/foam disintegrating?

[vicky slater]

it's definitely ectoplasm!!!!

[Terry]

Making foam out of ectoplasm now?  Isn't modern chemistry a marvel?

[LT]

I'm with Vicky.

[gregor]

I had the same on a Great Wall - it was foam in my case... Though I do like the ectoplasm possibility.

[Francois]

Could it be tree fluff...
Or maybe dirty film rollers (like on Yashicamats).

The particle could have stuck to the film and got unstuck while being processed (and thus dumped down the drain)

[LT]

Nope - I'm convinced it's the spectral discharge of John Hobart - The second Earl of Buckinghamshire.

[Alan]

Might this be a Holga you used? Could be a piece of one of the foam inserts working it's way through the camera.
Similar thing just happened to me. In my case, the entire foam piece broke loose and left all kinds of stuff
on the film on it's journey through the camera.

yep same thing happened me! those foam pads are just a joke . . . . like many things on the Holga
but thats for another day.

looks like it is in the same place on each frame . . .

[LT]

ok - it is sponge.  I knew all along to be honest.  I just wanted to get at least someone to tell me I'm a mental. You're all too polite.


It stayed for three frames, then disappeared.  It's on my new-gen holga body, I've never had it with the old holgas so I'm guessing it's a foam quality issue. I would say it is funny, and put it to one side, but I walked for  an hour to get to the Mausoleum, spent some time snapping with various cameras, then walked back only to find that I'd dropped the metal lens cap to my CV 50mm nokton somewhere along the way.  So I had to walk all the way back to look for it. I did find it, right by the mausoleum, so I walked for 4 hours in total to get foam-ruined negs. bah.

[Francois]

Now you're talking
You sure you didn't encounter a lens cap stealing ghost along the way?
Usually, they give you a chill when they go by you...

[astrobeck]

Yep! The foam on the new gen Holga's is crap.
I yank it out and replace it with strips of the fuzzy side velcro.
 
Too bad you have to "mod" the mod these days!
Bah!

[moominsean]

pubic hair! where do you keep your holga when you travel?

[LT]

Strangely enough Sean, I Do keep all my cameras down my pants to keep them warm whilst in transit. People will often be heard saying " does that photographer have a toy camera in his pocket or is he pleased to see me?"

 

[Miles]

I was going to mention that the guys @LOMO do some great pants ... Crazy, Whacky ones to be sure.

I won't though.

Holga Pants may even be a brand already.

[loloholmes]

that mausoleum looks amazing!