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I'm not seeing film grain of a 12 x Loop it would pretty hard to take a picture of the cracks with a cell phone.

 

I just shot another roll of pan F and I'm going to develop it tomorrow night I'm going to make sure all of my chemicals are the exact same temperature I'm going to carefully put it on the real and see the results.

 

I'm going to Google the the word for the cracked negatives and see if there's any photos that I can look at to see and compare to mine it would be difficult for me to take pictures and for you to be able to see it with just a phone.

 

 

Are you able to produce a print, either by scanning or wet darkroom work? You've developed the negs, what was your intention going forward from that point?

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I'm going to Google the the word for the cracked negatives and see if there's any photos that I can look at to see and compare to mine it would be difficult for me to take pictures and for you to be able to see it with just a phone.

 

Considering the above remark, I get the impression the OP doesn't know the correct terminology to describe what his negatives looked like after the issues found after development

 

Enclosed is a partial enlargement of what reticulated film looks like.

This will affect/show on the whole film, from beginning up to the end, and never only locally on just on one or maybe a few negatives

 

Kinking the film while spooling it on the reels may as mentioned show it self as dark half crecents on the negatives (and white half crescents on prints) and depending on the clumsiness of the person involved on one or more, but unless things really, really got messed up while spooling it in, but hardly never, if ever, on the complete film

 

If the OP would post an image of what his negatives look like, things would become much clearer then as now is the case going all over the place, and it would be much easier to give the correct feedback

 

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My point of going forward was to have the negatives scanned next so I will get them scanned and then I will post what they look like but from the what I've read Googled and the photo that somebody is putting this thread my negatives do not look like the photo that has been posted they don't look anything like that.

 

All the research I've done on this temperature difference between the chemicals what it does to the film does not look like what's happening on my negatives.

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So I took the negatives into my local camera shop and spoke with the guy that does the scanning he actually scaned them all into the computer for free and we examined the negatives and the cracks that I'm seeing under the Loupe are not showing up in a scan.

 

There are lots of water spots he said and he does see the small cracks under the Loupe he's not sure what it is but it's definitely not from a wide range of temperature difference between chemicals and none of it shows up on a scan so I have nothing to actually show you from the scan negatives because there's nothing to see so I don't know I'm just going to be more careful about my chemical temperatures and washing them and quickly putting them inside of sleeves after they've dried and go from there.

 

My personal opinion is that it's something from adding the alcohol to the final rinse I will no longer be doing that.

 

The cracks are kind of left it as a mystery I don't know what they are but I thank everybody for their input and their help.

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Well I took my negatives to somebody else and they looked at it and they didn't know what it was but it's not showing up on a scanner so I guess I don't need to worry about it.

 

Last night I developed another roll I kept all my chemicals very very close and temperature turned out fine and I don't see any of the same cracks or nothing.

 

I guess when you load with the plastic reels they have little ball bearings on each edge of the real those do scratch the very outside edge of the film where there's basically no image does that little strip those ball bearings do leave scratches on that but it doesn't affect the image so I guess everything's good.

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