So I work at The Camera Store, for the past few months at least, and I've gotten to know some pretty neat people.

Anyways, there's a particular custom who comes in very frequently, at least once a week with a few rolls of film to have developed.

Normally he has color 35mm film, I forget the camera he was using, but he was always very happy with his photos.

He brings his DSLR and uses the dslr to get appropriate settings (he shoots a ton of sunsets etc.)
He then sets the same identical settings on the film camera and begins shooting.

Today he brought in 35mm lomography black and white film.
I haven't even seen this film before, but was obviously going to have it processed for him.

Anyways, when I got into processing, went through everything, his roll was BLANK except for small, exposure squares chronologically and evenly spaced out on the negative...
I had no idea what, how, or any thought other than his shutter wasn't opening, or he was shooting way too fast, had the wrong iso, or had his iso on say 1600 on the dslr and the film was 100is?
I don't know the iso of the film he was using or anything, I'm not super knowledgeable on film other than how to process it.




So question being:
What would cause an empty roll of film with what appeared to be way under-exposed brackets on the film negative evenly spaced out????

It just sounds like complete underexposure, could be anything, most likely camera settings.
Another thing coud be a problem with the camera, as you said iso, but perhaps from mechanical failure in this part of the camera.
I never shot a lomo, so have no experience on usage.

There's a reason why lomo rhymes with homo.

Sounds like there was a fuck up on his end or your end and without knowing his settings it will remain a mystery.

Where exactly were these squares located?

This post was edited by lithfkn on Dec 11 2011 02:07am

If he was shooting an analog camera he easily could have forgot to change his iso settings. Lomography is fucking terrible though...

He was shooting an older like... Minolta kind of brand film camera with 35mm lomo film b&w.
The squares were visibly on a light box, but only there, and they were spaced where normal exposures would show up, but they were just faint blank squares.

I think something's up with his camera, or that film being lomo vs a minolta camera.
Lomo's dumb imo, I gave him a roll of b&w that was expired for free and told him to enjoy haha

In the hundreds of rolls of film I have developed/had developed I have never seen this

Yeah it's so confusing, nobody at work understands or has any idea

I am curious to know what he says when he comes and picks them up, and you tell him something went wrong