So I got my first roll of film back from my old Kodak Six-20 camera, and all the negatives are completely and utterly washed out. I first suspected that my…less than careful…respooling of the first roll may have been to blame, but then a flashlight and a dark room revealed the true culprit: leaky bellows. I went ahead and stuck an SB-25 in the back of it and made the shot you see below, to illustrate the problem. All those little pinpricks of light you see at the top of the bellows, those are holes where light can get out and, of course, in, ruining my film. (more…)