A horizontal scratch? Unusual! Please send me the link. Are you attempting to
source the issue for an insurance claim?
Since it seems to be related to the starting and stopping of the camera it does
not sound like a lab problem (and the lab snips a few feet off the head of
every roll to cover themselves that the scratches don't happen in their
machine). If your scratch test during prep didn't turn anything up then it
sounds more like a camera issue at the time of the shoot and the idea of the
film rubbing against the loop former sounds like a good theory, maybe it was a
case of bad loading. Any chance of the rental house letting you do another
scratch test?
As for a solution I've heard of impressive results for saving scratched film
with a wet gate interpositive. Might be worth doing a test.
John
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From: ben russell <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Saturday, February 18, 2012 3:20:23 AM
Subject: [Frameworks] The Horizontal Scratches.
Frameworkers,
I just received a mess of telecine'd color
super16mm footage from the lab and was more than a bit sad to see a long
parade of emulsion-side horizontal blue scratches on the right 1/4th of
the frame. I shot about 2.5 hours of footage with an Aaton Minima (a
camera I wouldn't really recommend, either way) and the scratches are
present throughout all the rolls - while they are not on every shot,
when they do appear they happen just after the camera has started
again.
A tech suggested that it might be the film slipping in the gate at
the end of a shot, making the loop too large on one side and scratching
against the loop former. The place I rented the camera from says it's
not their fault (and they've never seen such scratches produced by a camera in
15 years...) and the lab of course doesn't want to be responsible, so
any words to the contrary would be appreciated.
Have any of you run into this sad curiosity before? I'm happy to
send a VIMEO link to anyone who wants to see support material.
Thanks In Advance,
BR
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