alexanderwilson

Thanks for your replies, I'll have a look at my camera and check the shutter curtain. I guess the reason why I got into it was that I had seen quite a few pictures on social media that were taken on film cameras and I liked how the colours looked and the grainy aspect of it. Of course you can replicate those qualities through the usage of editing software, but I quite enjoy the experience of taking photos with my film camera also. Dropping the roll off at the lab and waiting till the next day to see the results is quite exciting for me. My first rolls haven't been the greatest success but I'd like to keep trying rather than just giving up so early into it. I'm not expecting this to make me a better or 'real' photographer, it's just another format that I've taken interest in. Although I haven't had the best of results so far, I'm enjoying the experience!

Thanks for your reply! Yea the vertical banding and checkerboard effect is only on the scans, I've had a look at the negatives myself but can't see any sign of it as far as I'm aware. I suspected that it might be either a leak somewhere or problems with the shutter. What would be the recommended thing to do in this case? I'm assuming sending it somewhere for a repair?

Hi, I'm new to film photography so there are still lots of things I've yet to learn in this medium. I've been shooting 35mm film with my Pentax MX that I got recently and I've noticed that I keep getting black horizontal streaks on my scanned negatives. They appear white on the negatives themselves. These streaks appear in the exact same place (around the middle of the frame), running horizontally throughout the frame. I've had a look at the negatives themselves and I can't see these streaks appearing between the frames. They seem to only appear on the frames themselves. The streaks are more prominent on the left side but then start to fade towards the right side of the frame. I've shot with three different film stocks (FujiColor 100, Fuji Pro 400H and Fuji Superia Premium 400) and I have had them developed at the same lab (I currently live in Japan so I've gotten them developed at a camera shop chain that does film development called Camera-no-Kitamura) I've tried looking for answers elsewhere but I haven't had much luck, which is why I'm posting here. This is my first post so I'm sorry if I haven't made things clear. Any help would be much appreciated! P.S. The scans are very poorly done by me as I have tried scanning the negatives myself through the DSLR scanning method using my mirrorless camera.