madcaplaughs Posted June 19 Share #1 Posted June 19 (edited) Advertisement (gone after registration) Hello, Does anyone have ideas on my M3 / Summicron Rigid 50 scans that ive recently received? This camera was YYE serviced recently. There are thin white lines on all the top of every photo scan ive received back. It looks like a light leak almost. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! Edited June 19 by madcaplaughs Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/422313-white-lines-on-film-scans-leica-m3/?do=findComment&comment=5820191'>More sharing options...
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skahde Posted June 19 Share #2 Posted June 19 (edited) Too mee this looks like a scanning-artifact. What looks the negative like? Edited June 19 by skahde 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted June 19 Share #3 Posted June 19 5 hours ago, madcaplaughs said: Hello, Does anyone have ideas on my M3 / Summicron Rigid 50 scans that ive recently received? This camera was YYE serviced recently. There are thin white lines on all the top of every photo scan ive received back. It looks like a light leak almost. Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! It isn't a light leak. It looks like a scanning artifact as @skahde says, or whoever scanned the images has added a black border and it's not quite wide enough or misaligned and an edge of the film base is showing. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
madcaplaughs Posted June 19 Author Share #4 Posted June 19 Thanks for the info. I'm going to be patient and wait for more scans to come back from other rolls and other labs before adding more attention to the issue. I just wanted an opinion on what it might be. Thank you! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_livsey Posted June 20 Share #5 Posted June 20 The actual exposed image does not extend past that line, no light leak can do that so precisely, the light is diffused by it's nature being unfocussed. The faux border is misaligned, not seem a lab do that, adding a border, how much image are they cropping I wonder, may as well use a slide mount, it could be just the neg holder edge and not an "added" border. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adan Posted June 21 Share #6 Posted June 21 In the posted picture, can someone point out to me any "white lines" that are not simply: - the reinforcing trusses in the ceiling structure - the guy wires suspending the spacecraft from the ceiling? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
skahde Posted June 21 Share #7 Posted June 21 Advertisement (gone after registration) I initially also fell for that and that's why I had to edit my post above. But when reading carefully, the TO is obviously talking about the lines along the borders of the frame, not something inside the frame. 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
250swb Posted June 21 Share #8 Posted June 21 (edited) The 'lines' (or line) has to be that across the top of the image, which are too precise the be a light leak and too humanly manufactured in post processing to be in any way natural. The OP could just crop them out, but maybe that is too simple? Edited June 21 by 250swb 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
adan Posted June 21 Share #9 Posted June 21 Ahhhh! One explanation (depends on the scanner type and technique) would be that the opaque film carrier is slightly misaligned in the scanner's transparent "scanning area" window. The opaque film holder registers as "negative black," and then inverts to "positive white" once the negative image is inverted to a positive. Something I can reproduce easily when "overscanning" my 6x6 negs as tightly to the carrier opening as I can, to capture as thick as possible an "authentic" black border. My set crop on Vuescan's low-res and imprecise preview image, intended to include the transparent (unexposed) film rebate, occasionally also includes just a hairline bit of the film carrier. Since I want the black rebate included, I usually just treat the occasional white line as an "extended dust speck" and retouch it out with Photoshop's "Healing Tool." In this 100%-pixels example, the mismatch of film carrier and scanner cropping area was at the bottom of the negative. Image half-inverted tonally to show how "A" becomes "B." Welcome, dear visitor! As registered member you'd see an image here… Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! 1 Link to post Share on other sites Simply register for free here – We are always happy to welcome new members! ' data-webShareUrl='https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/422313-white-lines-on-film-scans-leica-m3/?do=findComment&comment=5821835'>More sharing options...
skahde Posted June 22 Share #10 Posted June 22 Speaking tongue in cheek, the lines at the borders are at least straight to the corners. 😉 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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