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

----- Original Message -----
From: "Catherine Rogers" <crogers@optusnet.com.au>
To: <alt-photo-process-l@usask.ca>
Sent: Thursday, April 27, 2006 3:59 PM
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
>
>
   I am sure you have heard this before but developing your
own film is pretty simple, especially B&W. Color is best
done using a semi-automatic machine like the Jobo machines
but B&W roll film is dead simple, it requires only a tank
and you do not even need running water.
   Any lab which allows films to become light struck and
delivers B&W film which shows the signs of sloppy work
should be out of business, at least you should not be doing
business with them.

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Richard Knoppow
Los Angeles, CA, USA
dickburk@ix.netcom.com