[APML] tech pan revisited

["Scott Hammonds" <shammonds@creatorsview.com>]

For those interested parties, I finally had a chance to work on the tech
pan issues that plagued me from the beginning of this year.

As a reminder I was having problems with vertical lines running up and
down the exposed frame, an example is posted at the bottom of page
linked below. The top image has been quickly processed, the other 2 are
raw scans.

My tech pan was hypered by Jim Janusz and has been kept in the freezer
in zip locked baggies with desiccant since arriving from Jim. 

I only took 2 frames on Monday night to avoid having those 2 frames get
rolled up on the camera spool after exposure. That was the only thing I
could pinpoint from my attempts in January causing the vertical lines.
As can be seen from the 2 images on the page, no vertical lines,
however, on part of the developed strip those lines showed up again.
They were on the part that was wound up on the camera spool. 
http://www.creatorsview.com/pages/demo.html


It is bizarre, no other film does this in this camera. I have used E200,
RG200 hypered, and Supra 400 all in the last week and nothing of the
sort happened. Here is a link to a Supra 400 shot from last week.
http://www.creatorsview.com/pages/display.html It still needs work but
you get the idea.

I'm still not sure what is causing the problem, but for now, I can shoot
2 frames before having to take the film inside for developing. While not
a bad thing to see your results immediately, I'd like to be able to keep
shooting when the sky is clear. At least now I know what not to do.

Confused in B&W,

Scott Hammonds 


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