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What do light leaks look like on colour film negatives?
A few days back, I pulled my film from my home-developing tank to find prominent green blotches across several frames. They were shot on my daily-use camera, which I knew had no light leaks until then, so the first suspect was my possibly-bad agitation technique or improper film loading onto the Patterson reels.
This was new, so I’ve reached out to a few folks on Mastodon: mas.to/@analog_cafe/110251…
But after getting some feedback and scanning the film, I could finally confirm that these blemishes were light leaks after all!
This is what the green blotches looked like after I scanned the film in question (definite light leaks).
And this is the guide I wrote recently that I’d be using to fix my Olympus PEN FV’s light leaks: analog.cafe/r/how-to-repla…
Though I’ve had plenty of experience seeing and identifying light leaks in scanned negatives, I’m still relatively new to film development, and thus, I blamed my chemistry and the home-lab techniques first.
Oh well, live and learn. 🤷♂️
