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Jul 7, 2018 23:26:59 #
Jul 7, 2018 23:34:19 #
My time is usually about an hour, not a week.
--Bob
--Bob
KillroyII wrote:
This applies to me
Jul 7, 2018 23:57:06 #
KillroyII wrote:
This applies to me
Or worse, you send a roll of film away to be processed and the lab loses them. I had this happen when I was living in the UK in 1971. I sent a roll of 36 to Kodak transparencies for processing and was quite excited when I received the box of slides in the post only to find after opening them that they were not mine. Sent them back to Kodak with a note, their response was that the probable reason for not receiving mine was that I had either not filled out the return address correctly or at all. I went back to Kodak and asked them how could I receive someone elses slides in the package with my address if I had not entered the correct address. Eventually Kodak apologised and sent me two unexposed rolls of film as compensation. They did not respond to my letter when I cheekily
requested reimbursement for travel expenses to return to the place at which I had taken the photos - not that I expected a response but it helped to subdue my annoyance.
Jul 8, 2018 00:22:50 #
kay55
Loc: NE Ohio
Lol, been there done that, but if memory serves it was more like three weeks! I too have had my pictures lost, love, love, love, digital cameras!
Jul 8, 2018 01:01:26 #
Jul 8, 2018 01:05:48 #
KillroyII wrote:
This applies to me
Applies to me also. I was happy just to get 3 or 4 keepers. It was very frustrating. From what I know now, I wished I had known more about my film cameras. I definitely would have gotten more keepers.
Jul 8, 2018 02:03:11 #
I was taught at the age of 15 how to use a 35mm camera by a corporate photographer who lived across the street. The camera was a Konica and I don't believe it had auto anything. He also taught me how to use his old speed graphic which he gave to me when I graduated high school. That thing was cool, and it also had the Polaroid back. That being said, I was rarely unhappy when I got my slides and prints back from the lab. The most rolls of film I dropped off at one time was after returning from an ocean to ocean and back motorcycle trip back in the early 90's. I went thru 50 rolls of film with my Canon A-1 on that trip. If recall serves me correctly, there was less than 10 bad exposures and they were all at night; and most of the photos were pretty darn good.
Jul 8, 2018 08:25:23 #
I recognize the anguish. Yesterday, we went to a remote vineyard in the Shenandoahs and the only keepers are shots of each other holding up wine glasses.
Jul 8, 2018 08:44:30 #
KillroyII wrote:
This applies to me
True! It's better to be disappointed immediately, rather than worrying all week.
Jul 8, 2018 08:46:04 #
Thorny Devil wrote:
Or worse, you send a roll of film away to be proce... (show quote)
Whoever got your pix must have LIKED them!
Jul 8, 2018 08:53:06 #
Jul 8, 2018 09:31:46 #
Thorny Devil wrote:
Or worse, you send a roll of film away to be proce... (show quote)
How about getting 39 shots on a roll of 36 Ektachrome before realizing the film hasn't been advancing?
Jul 8, 2018 11:14:43 #
jaycoffman
Loc: San Diego
Yea, we always hoped my father's (actually most of the fathers in our parent's group) lab would lose the film so we would not be forced to see the slide shows. But it was always a crap shoot when you shot a roll of film and didn't know what the results were until it came back. (I couldn't afford and didn't have room for a developing room when I was younger.) Of course the more I learned about exposure and depth of field and composing the less the worry was.
Jul 8, 2018 13:49:58 #
Jul 8, 2018 15:22:27 #
Only time I went to Hawaii had about 15 to 20 rolls of film to develop, not enough money left to do all at once, so took about a month to get all done. Found at least 2 36 roll that were exposed as ASA 64, but film was ASA 25. But were fairly sharp. Underexposure made the colors very saturated.
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