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Don Elsass
Junior
Posts: 12
From: New Bern, NC, USA
Registered: Jan 2015

posted September 30, 2015 08:00 AM

What causes the dark areas around the periphery of this image? Is it the film or the lens?

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Steve Klare
Film Guy

Posts: 7016
From: Long Island, NY, USA
Registered: Jun 2003

posted September 30, 2015 08:16 AM

Hi Don,

That looks like gate crud. It's often hairs and dust, and in this case I'm guessing it's film emulsion that has accumulated.

If you get in there and clean it out I think you'll see a big improvement. While you are at it, you should clean similar stuff wherever else in the film path you find it. Your films will stay a lot nicer if you do.

A nice, gentle thing to use is an artist's paint brush.

(Either ask the artist or grab it while he's not looking!)

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Don Elsass
Junior
Posts: 12
From: New Bern, NC, USA
Registered: Jan 2015

posted September 30, 2015 06:21 PM

Did as you suggested and greatly improved. Thanks!

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