Tell the lab to stop cutting the film until after you have seen it, for starts.
Now, take the film in question out of the sleeves and line the cut strips up end to end in sequence and see if you can make a whole film out of it. Check to make sure the frame numbers are an even distance apart. If you can, check the frame spacing. Ummm, I know nothing about this camera, so I have a few questions. I know that it does data imprinting outside the frame. Where exactly does it put this data? Do you have the data writer turned on with the problem films? Have you asked the people at the lab? Challenge them to tell you what the problem is. After all, it is their prints with black lines. I would tend to look at the lab first, if the film checks out, it has to be the lab. William Robb ----- Original Message ----- From: "wendy beard" Subject: Irregular frame spacing > I can't remember if anyone has posted about this before or not. A search on > the archives only turned up references to the LX. > Anyway, it would appear that either my MZ-S has a problem or the photo > store I use has. > I have noticed that a lot of my prints are coming back and at least one of > them, sometimes two has a black band down one side. There is a pattern > emerging and so far it's only been with this camera. Nearly every single > occurrence has been photo number 22 (one was #9). In all cases, this has > also been the place where the negative has been cut into strips so I can't > tell from the negatives. The lab makes the prints before cutting the > negatives, right? > This has only just started happening and is really annoying me. > Thoughts anyone? - This message is from the Pentax-Discuss Mail List. To unsubscribe, go to http://www.pdml.net and follow the directions. Don't forget to visit the Pentax Users' Gallery at http://pug.komkon.org .
