Hi everyone,
I just received back a telecine transfer of some film stock test i did at Panavision in Poland and developed at WFdiF in Warsaw. I still did not receive the negatives back yet.
Link to a couple of clips >
I was trying out some expired 5219(4 years old) and some fresh 5207, and most of the clips came out as expected BUT on a few clips the sprocket holes seem to bleed into the image in very bright light, the orange burn on the side aligned with the sprocket hole orientation
This was evident on all rolls of film in specifically very bright overexposed scenes, so it cant just be the expired films fault.
It's also mostly noticeable on the right side of the frame (of the scan).
We used an Arricam LT (Handheld mags and Indiecam hd assist) with Zeiss ultra primes, fitted with MB19 matte box together with the snap-on collar for the ultra's but without any flags as i wanted to see if the gate flared or had any other reflection anomalies.
The roll of 5219 was shot with the 28mm for all shots and the camera was never opened after the first threading. And this only happened on the fourth or fifth take on that roll (as i can see atleast).
This happened subsequently on the other roll of 5207 i had also, but in a much subtler manner, and here we tested out the whole set of Ultras.
To me it could be several things:
- Bad handling of the negatives.
- Bad development (looks like over-agitation)
- bad telecine (Light bleed through the edge of the negative during telecine)
- Leaky mags/throat on mags
- Gate reflection related? Rear element reflection?
- Reflection of the negative itself?
- Leaky door on the Arricam LT?
