Yet another weird mystery in the darkroom....Today I noticed that there are these light-colored donuts right in the center of the prints I was making yesterday. They are Holga panoramas, so I was printing a five inch strip of 120 film by laying it on the glass negative carrier that's for 8x10 negatives. It has frosted glass, I guess to prevent newton rings or something. But now there are these other kinds of rings!
I was using the 135mm enlarging lens, which appeared to cover the negative fine. I had it stopped way down to f/32 though, because the head had to be so close to the print to make it only 12" long.
The head is a diffusion head.Is it possible that this frosted glass is creating this problem? I have used it before and never noticed it before.
Another clue: I cleaned the frosted glass with Windex before printing. I think I got it all dry. But it's possible it was slightly dampish when I was printing. I printed three negative strips, and all three sets of prints have this strange anomaly on them.
You can see the phenomenon here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/shannonstoney/490698167/My partner said I should just say it was a picture of nuclear winter in Houston.
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