From: Rebekah > Sounds like what I see when someone brings in one of those disposable > >cameras and they've left it in the glove-box of the car for a couple of > >days. It's where heat's damaged the emulsion. > > > This is actually a possible problem because where I live is rather > hot, except that I can't think of any time that the film would have > gotten warm while I had it. If heat was the cause, it may have > happened back when it was transported. Overall, I suspect (or perhaps > hope) it was just a bad roll of film. Or if you got it from one of the big box stores, improper storage ... or worse.
I had a customer return a disposable camera the other day. Told me "I got the digital to work, so I didn't need it." Since she then proceeded to the kiosk and printed off 50 or so images from her weekend at the beach, where do you think that disposable camera spent the weekend? And what do you think the next customer who bought the camera would get when they had the film developed? I marked it as defective and put it into the bin to be destroyed, but I don't think anyone else who works there would have known there was a problem. If I hadn't been there, it would have ended back out on the sales floor. But the biggest problem I've seen in the last week or so is these horrible jpegs. They look like smears of blocks on the print. It's obvious it was a low res jpeg to begin with - whoever had the camera set it to get the most possible images on the memory card - and then they've been saved over and over again. Occasionally, one of the customers will say something like "All my pictures have a little triangle with an exclamation point. Are my pictures going to be ok?" Unfortunately, the answer is NO, they're going to look like crap. Even after I've shown them what the print is going to look like by using a zoom & crop function, about half of them decide to print the pictures anyway. Then they're upset, and want me to take the blame because the pictures DO look like crap. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
