I have experienced more severe scratch problems on slide film when returned
in the pocketed plastic pages rather than in the boxes. Fewer scratch
problems encountered with color neg film.
DG
At 11:50 AM 3/14/01 -0800, you wrote:
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> >
> > I have experienced this exact problem as well with an occasional roll of
> > slide film in my PZ-1p. I would also like to know the cause. Anyone know?
>
>It can be a practically invisible piece of dirt somewhere in the film
>path of your camera, or an equally small piece of dirt (or, rather more
>often, a crystal of dried processing chemicals) in the path of any
>automated equipment at your lab. The lab, of course, will always claim
>the problem is in your camera. I even had a hard time convincing one
>lab the problem was at their end when the scratch showed on the unused
>part of the film that never left the cassette while in my camera!
>
>That's one reason why I shoot mostly slide film, nowadays, and get it
>processed at a little dip-and-dunk lab with no automated equipment.
>
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