sazzybee

It's super hard to tell, I'll have to take the negs into a camera shop

Thanks for your reply. It's really hard to see on the negs (I don't have a blue filter) they've been stored in individual sleeves in a folder. However I lived in a really humid area - and they are about 20 years old. There is a pretty helpful camera shop, so maybe I should take the negs in... if it is neg damage, is it worth giving them a clean or is the damage done?

I've just got around to scanning my negatives after many years (I bought the film scanner years ago: Plustek OpticFilm 7600) and I'm using Silverfast 8 to import. All of my images are coming out with various blotching, what do you think it is? If it's neg damage, will cleaning the negs resolve this? Or is it a scanner issue? Or is it me being a n00b and too lazy with exploring the software settings? This somehow feels organic...