KeithKim

It was Arri SR.

Thanks for the input. Do you mean that the cause could be a misloaded film or the magazine itself? Or, both? Thank you.

Thanks for the input. The people from the lab said that it is emulsion scratch. I could not see the scratch on the frame for the gate check because it is too bright. But I was able to see the scratch appearing more clearly as the camera rolls from the bvery beginning of the shot of the slate. The light leak has coloration. The light leak begins on the right side of the frame from the begining of the role. Untill the middle of the role, the leack stays only on the right side of the frame. It is constantly blinking. From the middle of the role, the scratch begins and colaration happens on both sides of the frame. Coloration and scratch disappears at some point and do not appear again till the end of the role. Could this happened by the misloaded film? Thank you everyone.

Sorry about misunderstanding. The scrach appears as black on the video daily. I have not checked on the negative but the technician in the lab infomed me that they found scratch on the negative. The lab I used has very good reputation. The light leak is not a sudden flash. It is not an irregular shape that appears and disappears all of a sudden. It is very constant, continuous as if it is alive. Although I am not an expert, I can tell that it was happening while the film was rolling. The scratch is very straight line along the left side of the frame. It appears for about a minute. The lab did only developing negative and telecine to digi beta. They did not do printing on film. Is there a process in the lab that possibly could cause the light leak? Thank you.

How're you everyone? I just got video print from lab and found that one reel of film got a scratch and light leaked. The scratch is clean vertical black line on the left side of the film. It appears from the middle of the reel till the end. Light leaked on the right side of the film and it keeps moving changing the size like a flame. The lab does not know the exact cause of it. They assume that the magazine was a problem because the image is stable (meaning that each frame was properly registered.) Anyway, I will have to shoot the part of the reel again. The camera and magazine were rented from the same place. In this case, can I ask the rental shop to compensate some of expenses for the re-shoot? Your experience and idea will help. Thank you.