On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 11:40:35PM -0400, John Sessoms wrote: > Actually, if you're shooting C-41 and not doing any push/pull stuff, any > of the mini-labs should be able to process the film adequately. > > It's really all automated, and there's very little they can do to mess > it up . . .
That's not my experience. Unless the mini-lab is well maintained, and cleaned and calibrated on a regular basis, it's all too easy for you to end up with a roll of film scratched because of dirt and/or crystals of the processing chemicals on the film guides. In one particularly bad case the lab operator tried to tell me that the scratches must have been caused by my camera, not by his machine. However he was unable to explain how my camera had managed to scratch the last 10 frames of the film, which hadn't been exposed, and so had remained inside the cassette while it was in the camera. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
