Peru Travel Story by Amanpreet Panesar

Amanapreet, I continue to see colour negative film photos showing evidence of light ingress, such as the two first ones in your article. Light ingress showing on film can be attributed to two major factors: 1. light leakage into the film transport area at the back of the camera and/or 2. strong light entering the cassette’s film slit. In the case of the first factor, nearly all negatives on the film will show some evidence of light ingress, especially those frames taken in strong sunlight, and if this is the case all the camera foam needs replacing. In the case of the second factor, the first frames of the film will show evidence of strong light (e.g. sunlight) entering the cassette’s film slit. This will certainly be the case if the film cassette is loaded in direct sunlight and particularly when ‘fast’ 400ISO film is used. The best way of avoiding the second factor is to leave the film cassette in its container until it’s to be loaded into the camera, and, if strong sunlight can’t be avoided, keep the film cassette and camera in the shadow of your body when loading; or preferably find somewhere away from direct sunlight. In any case, thank you for some interesting photos from Peru.