Why did my La Sardina film come back blank with color stains?

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I recently shot a roll in my La Sardina Lomography camera. The film seemed to be loaded and rewound correctly, but when it came back it was blank and had some color stains on it. What could cause this, and is it likely a camera problem or a film/light leak issue?

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You film has been exposed to light from a source that did not reach the film via the camera's shutter. The darkened edges of the film would not be exposed by taking an image using the camera. Even if your exposure settings completely overexposed the film using the camera's shutter, the edges of the film would not receive any of that light as it is masked by the film gate directly behind the shutter mechanism.

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If the developed film is blank but shows color staining and darkened edges, that points to unwanted light exposure rather than normal image exposure through the shutter. In a camera exposure, the film gate masks the edges of the film, so those edge markings would not be affected by overexposing a photo. When the edges are darkened or stained, it usually means light reached the film from somewhere other than the lens/shutter path. That suggests a light leak or that the film was exposed to light outside the camera’s normal operation. So this is less likely to be a simple exposure-setting mistake and more likely a problem with stray light reaching the roll.

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