Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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 >