[Tig] Dense negative

[Dominic Case]

Well the lab itself?

Or your local friedly Kodak person?

Or the filmmaker?

Have you looked at the neg itself?

If the neg is that dense, you should be able to see it by eye. Can you
inspect the neg over a light box? Compared with some known-to-be-normal neg.

You could be looking at plain simple overexposure - several stops. Camera
operator error, loading wrong stock etc. The base of the neg should look
normal (between the perfs). Image very dark.

Or serious overdevelopment (temeperature controler in the developer might
have died for example: lab should pick this with control strips, but  . . .
.). The base will look much darker than normal.

Or consistent fogging. Everything dark, but much lower contrast.

Another possibility is silver retention due to imperfect bleaching or fixing
in the process. You get a dense image on the neg, so your blacks on the
telecine should be reasonable, but highlights totally burnt out howeve hard
you hit. 

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Dominic Case
Atlab Australia
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