Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/07/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 3/7/2001 8:01 am, Rob McClure at owner-leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us wrote: > I recently got back a roll of Fuji 1600 I had processed at a one hour photo > lab. Four of the prints were panoramic format (4" X 12") though, to my > knowledge, no Leica M has this feature. The results are strange to say the > least with cut off heads and serious grain. The lab claims this is the way > the machine read the negatives (which look normal to me) and can do nothing > to print 4" X 6" prints. Anyone have a similar experience or know what in > the heck is going on? Sounds like the minilab reads the Neopan 1600 edge code as an instruction for Panoramics. I would have thought that anyone running the minilab with half a brain would realise the problem and set the print size to a manual over-ride. I'd tell the lab this, get them to run a set of reprints and then find another minilab! - -- David Prakel