Here's what it looks like: http://picasaweb.google.com/rg2pdml/Streak/photo?authkey=qqGY1gO6akM#5101675854002432850
I don't want to hear about how terrible this picture is - think point and shoot digital up against my computer screen. rg2 On 8/22/07, John Sessoms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
