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Great! Thanks for the reply! I’ll look into repairing it at home. Any recommendations on comparable film cameras that have metal shutters and are “better” than the faulty AE-1 Program I have?

Yes, I believe all of those images were shot at high shutter speeds. Thank you for the tip. This camera has been worked well for me so far so I can’t fault it for giving me an issue. I’ll look into getting it serviced when things start getting a little more normal. Thanks for your time and reply. I really appreciate it. Stay safe!

I had a lot of success in attaining insight into film troubleshooting on my last post and thought I would pose this one too: I've had this issue on various rolls of different types and development locations (store or done by myself) but all shot with the same Canon AE-1 Program. I will occasionally get this "black curtain" over the edge of my negatives. As far as I know, it always affects the right side of the negative/advancement lever side (if shot horizontally). I was wondering if this was a camera mechanism issue or something in post. Any insight would be greatly appreciated! I've learned a lot from this community and hope to continue.

What a great trick! Thank you, I will have to utilize that in the future!

Yes, I did agitation through inverting and simultaneous rotation of the canister. No use of the twiddle. I'll remove that second canister with the next roll and see how it affects the result. Thanks for the tip and response.

Re-fixed the negatives and it cleared up that muddy appearance! Thanks for the help everyone! I still have stripes of areas of under and overexposure that I believe to be in-camera issues as they are consistent previous negatives that I have. Learned a lot through this mistake and I hope to continue to improve the quality of my negatives. Have a good one and be safe everyone!

The developer was brand new and just made the day before and the temperature was slightly off but I again adjusted everything to correct for that temperature. I can try re-fixing to see if that helps. I also realized that I left the second film reel in only put in enough chemicals for a single reel. I’m wondering if too much chemical got attached to that empty reel that not enough reached the loaded reel. Thanks for the fast and thorough reply, I really appreciate it.

Thanks for the timely reply Tony! I did increase the development time and adjusted time additionally for any temperature change. I can be sure to give that a try and see what happens. Thanks for the response! I’ll check back

Hey all, I recently got supplies to develop my own B&W film at home and just finished my first roll with this set up and the images came out odd. I'll attach a few below but they appear muddy, dirty, and streaky with appears appearing at different development stages. I've experienced the issue with a strip of blackness at the right hand side of images before and chalked it up to my camera but this streaky, patchy and muddy appearance is new for me I used D-76 to develop a roll of Ilford HP5+, pushed to 800. Any thoughts or notes from experience that I can utilize to prevent this from happening with future rolls would be awesome! Thanks ahead of time and stay safe!