Hi Dion, I don't think there's a need to take your camera to repair. Normally, there are two reasons for such scratches: the camera or the lab. In the camera, you can trace back where the damage is done by placing a piece of a damaged negative in its usual place inside the back and matching the scratch lines with the surface of the presure plate for scratches on the shiny side of the film or arround the shutter if the scratches appear on the emulsion side (less likely).
The lab problem is also easy to track... just take a new film to develop and laugh on their face when it comes back scratched (labs usualy deny this kind of problems, as it's easy to blame the user for that, although I had one lab scan several damaded films and retouch them in house and for free... it's impossible for a camera to scratch a negative diagonaly ) Regards, Gerard. * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
