I just called my lab. I just started using them, since I'm fairly new in
town. They use the dip and dunk method, which most likely puts the onus on
my camera.
I actually prefer it this way because I believe the lab to be the best in
town, and if it was them I'd feel like I was up the creek.
Makes me wanna zip a roll of Kodak thru it everytime just before I load the
Fuji so I can make sure it's clean. <G>
Tom C.
----- Original Message -----
From: "John Francis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2001 12:50 PM
Subject: Re: Scratches on Film
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > 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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