Bizarre exposure problems with A1 - Help please!!

[Lauren Everett]

Hi,

The other day I got a few roles of film back from a cheap processing place, and noticed that many of the frames shot in low light seem to be over exposed (or something?) in one particular corner. I have had this camera for years, used it just last week, and this is the first time this has ever happened. Is anyone familiar with this? Processing error perhaps?? Here are some links to examples;

on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
on Flickr - Photo Sharing!

Any help would be greatly appreciated! I am having non-stop trouble with my cameras these past few months

-Lauren

[R. House]

Looks to me like a result of colored spot lighting on the stage spilling over to different parts of the image.

[blumesan]

Lauren,

First of all WELCOME TO THE CAMEL. I am sure you will find lots of helpful correspondents here.

Unfortunately in this case my guess is that the fault does not lie with your camera or the film processing, but rather with the lighting. Do you have some frames that were taken in natural and more even lighting?

[Battou]

I agree with blumesan, this looks like an issue with the lighting it self based on the fact that the two images are framed differently but yet the issue occures the same position in both frames.

[xxloverxx]

Could it be to do with metering on a black background? Although I think if you'd metered on black it would've been even more overexposed.

[verdesardog]

Those two shots look like they were taken from just about the same angle making the right side of the photo under exposed. Almost looks like partial solarization or worn out chemichals.