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Dustin Gent wrote:
on the B&W roll, it is the same spot, and on the slides the ones affected are the same spot as well...
also, here is a slide from the same roll. there are marks on it, and i think it was from the scanner it would be obvious.. looks like "roller" marks. This was taken with a different camera
This one is absolutely full of micro scratches.
This was always a major issue with film, and still is. "Back in the day", this is why premium photo labs stayed in business -- when we had an assignment, we couldn't turn in film like this -- the whole thing would have to be reshot, often at the photographer's expense. So we happily paid a premium to labs like A&I in Hollywood to ensure our 35mm, 120, and 4x5 film was handled well and turned around in 3 hours for transparency (or less with rush charges!).
In my more recent forays into film, including Contax N cameras and lenses (I'd always wanted to shoot Contax), I found film terribly scratched from every local economy development such as Walgreens and Costco. I knew what I getting what I paid for, but even my local custom lab was not immune with scratches showing up in the film them developed and scanned for me -- but it was much better than the economy develop/scan places.
I think mail-in lab, North Coast, was just about as good as the local custom, and cheaper, but turnaround was around a week, and still not cheap -- I was disinclined to send 10 rolls I'd shot for my own amusement. It would have been a different story if I'd been being paid, but then the slow turn around would have killed the job.
It gets back to the old saying: if you want it done right, you have to do it yourself. Or pay for a really good custom lab.
If you can get all the stars aligned, film can certainly be a fun and rewarding experience.
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