Hazy pictures: camera or film problem?

[aran_kadar]

I recently posted four pictures in my Scotland folder. Many of the

pictures seemed extremely hazy and grainy to me and I'm not sure if

the problem was the film, film processing, or the camera. The defect

does not seem to occur on every picture in the roll (there are four

pictures from the same roll of Kodak Max 400 posted). The film only

went through the x-ray machine for carry on luggage. The pictures

were taken with a Yashica T4 Super and processed at Ofoto.com.

 

Any thoughts on what went wrong?<div></div>

[john_shriver]

Well, the sun is close to being in the lens. So it could be lens flare. (It takes a high-quality lens to cope with that sort of lighting. Or a hood.) Are all the problematic shots backlit like this one?

 

Alternately, the negative could be badly under-exposed, and the printing corrected the density. Under-exposed color negatives print very grainy, with lousy contrast. Look at the matching negative, is it comparatively transparent?

[phule]

Your subjects are backlit and there doesn't appear to be any fill flash. The images were printed/scanned so that you can see the subjects faces, which resulted in the flat contrast.

 

Attached is a contrast adjustment that "looks" better but you can't see your subjects faces. Next time, try turning on the flash. :)<div></div>

[craig_bridge]

Take a look at the negatives. Exposure is probably the primary factor. Suspect you will find the problem frames over exposed thick and thus hard to print.

[jeffrey_abelson]

"Your subjects are backlit and there doesn't appear to be any fill flash. The images were printed/scanned so that you can see the subjects faces, which resulted in the flat contrast. "

 

Dead on the money!