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Why is that my film came out of focus?

Roll of 35mm film came out with odd effect?!?

  • ok I just shot two rolls of 35mm film on a canon AE-1. Both rolls were from the same package and were not expired. One roll came out fine, but the other came out extremely low contrasty and underexposed. could this be a development issuse rather than a camera issue? I've shot many rolls of film, but never had this problem before thanks

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    Well... it "could" be either. I would say it is more likely a development issue if you are using some type of drug store or department store "lab". These one hour type places are no better than the upkeep on the machine and the skill and care of the operators. Unfortunately, with many of these type of labs, both the machine upkeep and operators leaves a lot to be desired. If you are using a dedicated film lab that has pros who have been doing this for years and do nothing else but working with film, then I would say your camera, (or you), are more likely at fault. Are you sure your ISO did not get set higher on the camera? You say you have shot many rolls of film, so I will assume you have a good skill base on how to expose and set the camera. Perhaps the aperture blades are stuck in a nearly closed position? Perhaps your shutter is sticking? Perhaps the light meter is malfunctioning? There is just no way to say for sure what the cause is. The AE1 is hardly a new camera. It might be worth it to have it checked out by a good camera repair facility. KEH does this work at reasonable cost. http://www.keh.com steve

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were they the same iso??? did you use a flash with one roll???

Forlorn Hope

Without seeing the film, everything is pure speculation. Even then, just the film alone can't tell us for sure what the problem was, but it's a start... . What kind of film..? Real BW film or the C-41 variant..? Could you have used slide film..? Film is not film for their are different kinds and that develop different. . Where the sprocket holes are, do you see good, dark, contrasty names, bar codes and numbers..? If these are pale and washed out, something happened in developing or the wrong film was used in their process machines. . Again, hard to say here, to many variables not to mention the camera.

Camera Guy

if everything else was fine it could just be metering skill. a sunset for example, on auto, depending on where you point the camera you can be up to 5 stops under or over exposed. Just shift a little to a side and one side of a face vs the other can be 3 stops.

secret_asian_man

Unlikely to be a process problem if processed in as normal high street lab, since that sort of place processes dozens, maybe hundreds of films each day, so why would your film out of so many be poorly processed? Meter wrongly set?

John P

They may have been under or over developed. Take them back to the place where you got them done to ask. It's a bit hard to guess without handling the film.

Try showing pictures so people know what you are talking about instead of making them guess with no exact idea remember you are the one asking for help right!

Annette Leigh Haynes

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