>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).
I have done this, but to no avail :( >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 ) Yeah, I've tried new labs and also dropped film in from my other cameras to my usual lab. It still persists ... --- Dion Mikkelsen * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
