Good Morning Alan and all;
Please do not blame ALL one-hour labs. True, many are chain operations,
many are operated by unskilled/untrained help, BUT NOT ALL.
I do not know where your are physically located, but try several or if
you are in a city or town with a college or university, try the labs
they use. Generally they are equiped with equipment and trained
personnel to handle and treat film carefully and provide services that
you would not expect.
If something is really critical, please contact me, and perhaps I can
help with the problem.
Even though I have heard lots of HORROR stories, I cannot believe that
we are the only careful lab in the country. I would be happy to
describe our procedures and services to you in a private or public
email.
Best Wishes, Mike
Mike Stoesz, VP
Rainbow Photography & 1-hour
213 Grand Av.,
Laramie, Wy., 82070
307-742-7597 M-F 8am-5:30PM Mountain Time
mstoesz@xxxxxxxxxxx (home email)(most reliable)
mstoesz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (work email)(sometimes goofy)
please try both and I will be sure to receive it.
>
> I recently bought an OM-1n for astrophotography (my first OM!).
> While testing the camera I shot a couple of rolls of cheap film
> and developed them at two different 1-hour labs. The negatives
> from both rolls came back with awful scratches. I examined the
> camera body but couldn't see an obvious source, so I figured
> it's probably the cheapo labs. Then I realized I had a way to
> test if the body was causing the scratches: Seattle Filmworks!
> I opened the magic red cannister I've had for years, loaded it,
> shot some pix, rewound most of the way, opened the camera, then
> as I began to examine the film for scratches, to my horror I
> saw "USE BY NOV. 98" printed on the film pack. Darned film had
> expired! Rats... :-)
>
> The film came out clean; both 1-hour labs caused the scratches.
> This was my first and probably last use of 1-hour processing.
>
> Yesterday I had a chance to observe one of the lab-boys at one
> of these 1-hour labs. He yanked a freshly-developed roll of
> negatives from the AGFA machine with his bare hands, slapped
> it onto a manual cutting device, and rapidly cut the negatives
> into strips of 4 (much faster than I would have been able to
> line up the strips). If the machine didn't scratch the film,
> the way he ripped through it cutting the negatives probably
> did. I've never done any darkroom work, but I always imagined
> it to involve careful handling of film by the edges, perhaps
> even wearing rubber gloves.
>
> Alan Bland
> mailto:gordo@xxxxxxxxxx
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