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Blue spots on old slide film?
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 24, 2011 9:02 pm    Post subject: Blue spots on old slide film? Reply with quote

I digitalizied some (800) slides of my father as an birthday present for him.



Most results are good but on many slide there are blue stains.
They are especially good visible on underexposed images while they are hard to find in correctly exposed pics.
For example:
No blue stains


Blue stains


(I guess all are from the same film roll)
But it's also visible on film which is I guess ~5 years younger (and now 26 years old as my mom is pregnant with my older sister in these pics Wink:

And here again same film, same lab, but with a blue stains



What's the reason for this? Looks like an error in the lab for me. Or is this due bad storing conditions?

And on some other slides there is also a ghost image which looks like double exposure or something. But all these picture were taken with a Konica Autoreflex T and I don't see a possibility to make a double exposure with that cam.

May this be a problem of wrong fixing process etc.?


PostPosted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 12:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is it possible the camera or the slide projector is creating the problem?


PostPosted: Fri Nov 25, 2011 12:41 am    Post subject: Re: Blue spots on old slide film? Reply with quote

ForenSeil wrote:
And on some other slides there is also a ghost image which looks like double exposure or something. But all these picture were taken with a Konica Autoreflex T and I don't see a possibility to make a double exposure with that cam.

May this be a problem of wrong fixing process etc.?

Is this double image definitely on the slide and nothing to do with your digitisation process?


PostPosted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 10:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stains can be due to improper washing, or not sufficient agitation of fixer.


PostPosted: Sat Nov 26, 2011 10:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Orio wrote:
Stains can be due to improper washing, or not sufficient agitation of fixer.

But would that account for the obviously different image in this shot? It might if the coils of film in the tank were in contact. I wonder if there's another frame on the roll with the superimposed image.


PostPosted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 6:55 pm    Post subject: Re: Blue spots on old slide film? Reply with quote

peterqd wrote:
ForenSeil wrote:
And on some other slides there is also a ghost image which looks like double exposure or something. But all these picture were taken with a Konica Autoreflex T and I don't see a possibility to make a double exposure with that cam.

May this be a problem of wrong fixing process etc.?

Is this double image definitely on the slide and nothing to do with your digitisation process?


Yes I'm sure. It's reproducable with the same slides.


PostPosted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 8:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK. Is there another frame on that film roll from which the ghost image might have come? I'm trying to establish whether there is any chance of cross-frame staining due to contact during the development process. Or is it a completely unrelated image from who knows where? That would point to some kind of double exposure or focussed light leak.


PostPosted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 1:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

peterqd wrote:
OK. Is there another frame on that film roll from which the ghost image might have come? I'm trying to establish whether there is any chance of cross-frame staining due to contact during the development process. Or is it a completely unrelated image from who knows where? That would point to some kind of double exposure or focussed light leak.

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PostPosted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 10:15 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ForenSeil wrote:
peterqd wrote:
OK. Is there another frame on that film roll from which the ghost image might have come? I'm trying to establish whether there is any chance of cross-frame staining due to contact during the development process. Or is it a completely unrelated image from who knows where? That would point to some kind of double exposure or focussed light leak.

I have the solution of the mistery. The photo was shot through the window of a train Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy

Doh! Laughing