Hi Igor -
I'd only call Ghostbusters if it looked like the Stay Puft Marshmallow
Man :-) But it doe smake me wonder if ghosts could better appear on a
digital camera or on film. I figure we won't see ghost on digital for a
while, because most dead people don' t know how to work digital
cameras. Ghosts only showed up on film once people who knew what film
was died and were able to use their knowledge of film to show up. (I
just made that up. I think that is OK when talking about ghosts, but
I'll disclose that. I mean, you don't see Pharoes on photos, do you?)
Anyhow - probably an imperfection in developing amplified by pushing two
stops...
- MCC
On 10/24/2011 1:32 PM, Igor Roshchin wrote:
Mark,
I hope you also noticed the light "beam" coming from the bottom,
and diverging toward those "lights"?
There may be also bright spot at the bottom edge (or it might be
coming from a bright part of the ground?).
It might be consistent with Paul's hypothesis.
I think it you've managed to photograph a ghost. Have you contacted the
ghostbusters yet? :-) Oh, wait... it might be a UFO.
Cheers,
Igor
On 10/24/2011 7:12 AM, Paul Stenquist wrote:
Hi Mark,
I think a light leak that tight and tidy is unlikely. it would probably be more
diffuse. I'd bet on something going wrong with the chemistry, perhaps a few
grains of undissolved developer that stuck to the film but were eventually
washed off.
Paul
On Oct 23, 2011, at 10:40 PM, Mark C wrote:
Oops - put the first link in twice. Here's the second:
http://www.calarti.com/peso/2011-0434_tu2.jpg
On 10/23/2011 10:38 PM, Mark C wrote:
Submitted for your perusal... here's a photo I snapped a week ago in a state
park near Augusta, Michigan. Notice the globular lights on the left side of the
frame and what appears to be light shining towards the center of the frame:
http://www.calarti.com/peso/2011-0435_tu.jpg
Here's the frame taken immediately before that one:
http://www.calarti.com/peso/2011-0435_tu.jpg
Yeah - I drew the circle on the second one to show where the lights were on the
first. At first I thought that this must be lens flare of some sort, but I'm
certain the sun was behind me. The trail proceeds to the north and while it
twists and turns a bit as it follows the edge of a sinkhole lake, it never
strays more than from NW to NE. The shot was taken around 2 PM local time last
Saturday, which I reckon to be about 11:30 true local time - which would put
the sun in the south-southeast area. Behind the bushes that the light is
emanating from is a big empty field - just soybean stubble for a couple hundred
yards.
Taken on an Mz-S with an FA 20-35 f4 zoom, #29 deep red filter, lens hood in
place. No Photoshopping other than contrast and tone adjustments. The photo
was shot on Neopan 400 pushed to ISO 16000 and developed in HC-110 Dil B. I
checked the negatives and there are no developer / agitation marks. The lights
are in the negative as areas of density. The area of density does extend beyond
the frame, into the sockets on the film. This is the last frame on the role and
there are no kinks or folds on it (or elsewhere on the roll...)
I'm guessing a pin-hole light leak in my changing bag? Any one else ever get
this sort of thing?
Mark C.
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