You mean, of the kind that they tell you is harmless to film?
No X-rays are harmess to film, not according to Kodak documentation anyway.
Probably not. The point was that I suspect the people in charge of
controls at airports don't have exactly the same opinion on what is
harmful to film and not, as e.g. Kodak.
Did you look at
http://www.procaptura.com/~toralf/bilde.php?navn=neg
I didn't really have a clue what the problem was looking at the prints you
posted but the film shows some clues. It's plain to see that the part of frame
17 that was on the take up spool and rearward was exposed too hence the bar.
The film that was still in the cartridge was OK, just a little light bled under
the seal.
So, you think the actual pattern suggests that this happened while the
film was in the camera? Would the fact that frame 15 has a similar, but
narrower, band also be consistent with that.
The light that fogged the film could possibly have been due to the film back
being momentarily opened at frame 18 but it's not that likely as the very edges
of the film remain unaffected. The only real fit is that frame 18 was seriously
over exposed and the light bled into the adjoining frames. Frame 19 was exposed
to red light, were you using coloured filters?
Well, it's been a while since I shot those frames - the film has been
sitting in the camera for a while - so I don't remember exactly what I
did, and I didn't bother to take notes, either. What I can say, however, is
1. I'm quite certain that the back wasn't opened at the time, or at
least, that I didn't ever notice that it was. There is of course a
slight possibility that it opened, then shut itself, as I carried
the camera in a bag.
2. As you can see, I was playing around with a wide-angle lens at the
time. It was the Zenitar 16, which has a rear filter arrangement
(as you may know), and I was also changing the filters around a
bit, trying some shots with the coloured ones (being bored, and
lacking the inspiration to take really interesting pictures...)
3. It is definitely possible that I messed up somehow on frame 18 -
that's why frame 19 has essentially the same shot.
So can overexposure really have consequences like this? I never realised...
- Toralf
