Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/13

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Subject: Re: [Leica] E-6 strange colors
From: John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:46:52 -0700

Thanks for not flaming me, as I think, on rereading the post, I so richly
deserved. You are not alone in the film lost in transit situation. I have a
roll of exposed Tri-x in the fridge I had forgotten about and have not yet
developed that dates from three years ago.

John Collier

Please do not say where in Mexico if it is near the coast as I am a
frustrated landlocked snorkler.

> From: "Anders Nygren" <anygren@attglobal.net>
> 
> De: John Collier <jbcollier@home.com>
> 
> 
>> Maybe you need new speaker wire?
> 
> 
> Yep, that should probably do the trick.
> 
>> 
>> Sorry, I could not resist. To my inexperienced ears it sounds like the film
>> was getting a little stale. I am assuming you did not freeze the camera
>> between uses ;-) ;-) to preserve the film.
> 
> Well, the camera was stored in my mothers bedroom and she occasionally
> wakes up with snow on her pillow, she a tough old swedish lady.
> 
>> Possibly the stale chemicals at
>> the local supermarket did it in as well. I have never heard of a
> supermarket
>> with an E6 line. Did they really do it in one hour or did they send it out?
>> Maybe they ran it through a C41 line!! ROTFLOL
>> 
>> OK. I have settled down now. If you are going to do slides it is important
>> to use fresh film, freeze film you are not planning on using for a while
> and
>> process at a quality lab promptly after exposure.
> 
> 
> Yes I know, I have been shooting only slides for the last 20 something
> years,
> but it was an roll that was stuck in a camera that got mothballed when I
> moved from Sweden to Mexico.
> 
> /Anders Nygren
>