Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/04/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 4/1/02 4:31 PM, B. D. Colen at bdcolen@earthlink.net wrote: ? Do those neat little > copout lines on the packaging really protect the film manufacturers and > processors? > > B. D. Oh yeah, those statements work both for faulty manufactured or processed film. The rule being if you have deep enough pockets you might prevail in litigation; however, several very deep pockets have tried in the past to recover damages due to lab errors from independent labs in the motion picture arena and have lost. The process, no pun intended, has carried over into the still lab. In Washington, D.C.(Rockville, MD) a large well known magazine located in D.C., known for its massive use of film and at one time preferring Kodachrome, delivered a large quantity of its favorite film to the Kodak lab and some of it did not achieve greatness. They protested, they stomped, they screamed and they received one roll of film for each rolled damaged just like the rest of us. Even with Kodak, at the time, as the sole source of processing of Kodachrome, they do not accept liability beyond replacement in kind of lost or damaged film. The story ended with some green boxed film getting lots of testing from this well known magazine along with other non-Kodachrome products and their usage of Kodachrome greatly declining. Another chapter in another book.... Happy snaps, Steven Alexander - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html