Topic: Wavy line across Negs

[This-is-damion]

Any ideas.

Its on all the negs pretty much.    Dev'd at same time- I had 2 reels in the tank so maybe not enough soup?

Other neg looks fine, all same camera, same weekend etc

[Francois]

Pretty weird... usually, not having enough chemistry affects one side completely, not the middle.

[moominsean]

looks vaguely light leak-ish.

[This-is-damion]

It's my bessa r3a so hoping its not a light leak!  Guess I should run another film through to check.

[jojonas~]

I think I've gotten uneven streaks like that because of old fixer(?)
sorry not much certainty to back that up but it's a guess

[Francois]

It's my bessa r3a so hoping its not a light leak!  Guess I should run another film through to check.

I doubt it be a lightleak. Bessa's are really well made. If it was a leak, I would expect it to be vertical on the sides of the door, not in the middle of the frame...

Besides, the R3 isn't really old enough to have some shot foam seals...

[thil]

i had a similar problem a while back. these were processed in a commercial lab. my suspicions were dodgy batch of film or something not quite right with the levels of solutions during processing. i never really managed to work out what the real cause of this was.

[LT]

It's my bessa r3a so hoping its not a light leak!  Guess I should run another film through to check.

I doubt it be a lightleak. Bessa's are really well made. If it was a leak, I would expect it to be vertical on the sides of the door, not in the middle of the frame...

Besides, the R3 isn't really old enough to have some shot foam seals...

there is a window at the back so the film container can be seen when loaded ... this has a foam seal around it, but it could cause a leak to the centre of the film ... I doubt that's the cause though.

try re-fixing it in fresh fix and see if it clears?

[LT]

OR - the negs look like they'll be ultra thin - it could be a scanning artefact issue? If the software is struggling to get detail and tonality out of thin negs, very odd things can happen. Maybe the other shots you talk about Damion are not so thin?

[This-is-damion]

ill try some fresh fix.

Other negs were less thin..i agree!

I guess my main concern was that it was a light leak- as has been said, its my R3A, I dont need that breaking at the moment.

[Francois]

I don't think it's a lightleak. Worse case scenario, if you want to test the window, just stick a piece of electric tape on it for the next roll.