Horizontal Lines on Lab Scans

I've been shooting for years and sometimes my lab scans come back with horizontal lines in them. It's somewhat rare that I see them, but I was sad that it happened on this roll as I liked a lot of the shots. I asked one of the employees, and he was not certain. I think it might be something in the scanner or density adjustment, but can't say for sure.

The details:

  • ProImage 100
  • Nikon F100
  • AF-S 85mm 1.8 G
  • Noritsu scanner
  • Processed in a rotary machine, as their mini lab is down for the moment.

I put a curve on this shot to emphasize the lines, but they were somewhat apparent. These lines look somewhat bowed, but other times they are straighter.

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overcasteight@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (2 replies)

Can you check the negatives? Looks like bromite drag.

MSids@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y (1 reply)

bromite drag

Wow, yeah that could absolutely be what the issue was. This video described the issue, and knowing how some film can curl in the plastic reels I can see how the denser bromide might have collected in the center of the negative during development and created this effect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfXvtVueKKY

overcasteight@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y

Lack of agitation is usually the cause, so who knows if they are using the rotary machine or processing manually.

iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee · 1 pts · 2y

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