Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1997/11/17

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Subject: Re: Processing equip breaking
From: Jim Brick <jim@brick.org>
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 1997 23:27:17 -0800

At 10:56 PM 11/17/97 -0500, you wrote:
>> Barcelona,London,Bombay, Delhi, Dhaka,Calcuta,Delhi(again),London(again)
>> and Barcelona..............
>> >                       .
>> >                       ........The lab ruined all of them.
>> >
>> >Life is wonderful:):):):):)
>> >Jordi Vidal
>> >
>lab do it in batches; not all of it at once. They have power failures,
>water shutoffs, rack crashes in the dip and dunk and other gremlins to
>watch out for. What I don't understand is how they screwed up both color
>and black & white.
>
>Carl S.

A very close friend, an award winning wedding photographer (Judy Wilson)
shot one of her supposed "best" friend's (the wife to be) wedding. Both the
bride and groom families were very rude, would not cooperate, and went out
of their way to make Judy's life miserable. These people were very well off
and the wedding was held at a posh country club. Before the wedding, Judy's
"friend" said she wanted all of these really cool photos. Judy, therefore,
could not for the life of her, figure out why she was being persecuted. She
nearly left in disgust but stuck it out like a trooper. Jennie (my wife)
and I had breakfast with Judy a couple of days later and heard all the
sordid details. We said (all of us) "what goes around, comes around." The
next day, she got a message from the lab that the dip & dunk rack had
broken loose and the film remained in the developer for twenty to thirty
minutes. They finished the processing but the neg's were like an
eclipse-of-the-sun filter. Judy remarked... "there is a God!" and she
delighted in telling her ex-friends that there were no pictures and they
would have to go to the guests that took happy snaps. So instead of world
class wedding pictures, they got only happy snaps.

I'm not sure why I told this. Processing equipment breaking I guess. Maybe
there is truth to the saying "what goes around, comes around!"

Jim