RE: well I'll be....darned

Film Horror stories!! My last two free rolls ended up costing me $80.00. A
friend gave me some scala to shoot. I ran it through the camera and then it
sat and it sat. I asked if anyone on the pure silver group had a starting
point for just straight processing; no response. I think I asked here as
well. No response. I heard about DR5 lab up in Denver. Thought I'd give
them a try and not wanting to lose a frame I three fed ex to DR5. Thought
that I'd let them do a batch scan on the rolls and send them back. They
failed to listen to me and sent them OVERNIGHT. Shipping, scanning,
processing, $80.00. NO more scala. And most were a bit cooked, me or them?
Most of my film from the shoot were fine, but I did change lens often and
could have turned the dial! Oh well. These thing happen.

Eric Neilsen Photography
4101 Commerce Street
Suite 9
Dallas, TX 75226
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Catherine Rogers [mailto:crogers@optusnet.com.au]
> Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 5:59 PM
> To: alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca
> Subject: Re: well I'll be....darned
>
>
> Chris wrote
>
>
> > How about dem Bears? (for those non-Americans, that's a football
> team)...
> >
> > Offlist, a friend of mine mentioned the fact that the planet Mars was
> moving
> > through Cancer and a lot of this blowup stuff is going to happen.....
> snip
>
> You may have something there Chris.
> I took 7 rolls of film to my usual (professional) lab last Friday and when
> I
> picked them up on Wednesday, staff were full of appologies because the
> roll
> of E6 had been exposed to light. Half the film was ruined - images which I
> will never get again. As I paid I looked over a proof sheet of black and
> white and noticed a strange mottling in the sky on one neg, checked the
> rest
> and saw that they were all similarly mottled allover, and discovered that
> all 5 rolls of TMAX100 were covered in this strange uneveness together
> with
> a few other markings which looked like (fixer) contaminated developer. I
> kind of bypassed anger and went straight into despair. A whole day's work
> absolutely destroyed and quite unprintable - even the gradient tool can't
> fix this. Sometimes (using lack of time as an excuse) I get a lab to
> process
> my black and white film which I would normally do myself. BIG sigh. Big
> mistake. The autumn light and the weather had been just right for this
> work
> too....
>
> I know you are all busting to know about the 7th roll. Well, it was
> overdeveloped. Rather ugly, but usable at least. That was my fault because
> I
> had forgotten to ask for an N-1. It couldn't have been any worse if I had
> processed everything myself.
>
> Here endeth my sad photography tale.
> cheers
> Catherine
Received on Thu Apr 27 18:05:40 2006