Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/29
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Wrong!!! This is a professional lab dealing with the professional photographic community. It is in an industrial area, not in a consumer area. For film processing, you do NOT have any contact with lab personnel. All of the processing forms, job holders (to put your film and request form into), and time clock stamp, are located in the lobby. There is a slot through the wall that is a FILM DROP. Therefore... you write up your own order, time stamp it, bag it, and drop it through the slot. As a PROFESSIONAL lab they assume that anyone dropping film through the slot knows what they are doing. They also assume that anyone needing assistance will go to the counter and ask BEFORE filling out a processing request. But if you don't know what you are doing AND you don't ask, and you submit a job, well, you are just plain stupid. Like going to a French restaurant, not speaking a word of french, and ordering from the menu WITHOUT ASSISTANCE. Escargot... yeah, that has a ring to it. I'll have whatever that is! Rare please. Dumb! Not only that, the request forms have the process in huge letters right across the top. E6, C41, CROSS PROCESS. Pretty simple. And a counter eight feet away with clerks so asking for help is also pretty simple. Jim It's amazing to me how people always want to blame someone else. I processed the film incorrectly so it's the lab's fault. I shot B&W (I thought I had color in the camera) so it's the store's fault. Should have asked me if I was going to forget what I had in the camera. I forgot to change the ASA on my camera meter so I shot that Velvia at ASA 3200. It's the film manufacturers fault for making such slow film. This could go on forever. Take responsibility for your own actions. When you make a mistake, own up to it. At 09:34 PM 8/28/99 -0400, you wrote: >I don't understand why the Lab didn't question the customer when they saw >this to make certain that it was not a mistake. I think the processing lab >should bear some responsibility for this. > >-Mike > >----- Original Message ----- >From: Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com> >To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us> >Sent: Friday, August 27, 1999 8:44 PM >Subject: [Leica] Re: Re: mindsets and cross processing > > >> This is an ongoing discussion right now on the HUG. Seems like most >Wedding >> Photogs on that list either sell their negs to the client, or shred them >> after some relatively short time span. They say that after a couple of >> years, reprint orders are non existent. So why keep them. >> >> Interesting sidebar... I was in Calypso Imaging on Wednesday, picking up >> some prints (another 48x60 and some smaller LightJet prints) and this >> fellow came in and asked if his film was ready. He spoke very poor >English. >> It was and Amanda said to him "cross processing produces some very >> interesting and strange results" and the man didn't understand her. He >> looked at the film (which was 120 E6) and said "this is E6". Then he saw >> that he had filled out a cross processing request rather than an E6 >> processing request. He got, as he requested, his E6 run through the C41 >> process. What he had photographed was a wedding. About six rolls. The man >> then buried his face in his hands and uttered strange words. It was easy >to >> tell that he was very distressed. >> >> Jim >