Heat can destroy unexposed film, especially in a car.
John Hermanson
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From: <DAVDOU9211@xxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 9:21 PM
Subject: [OM] RE: Photo Processing Disaster?
| I would like the input of the group. Yesterday I shot a roll of Kodak Max
| 800. Shot it available light of my grand daughter using an OM-1 and
Vivitar
| 75-205 zoom. I had checked the metering of the newly CLA'd OM against my
| OM-4t and it meters a test wall identical to the OM-4t.
|
| I had the film processed at a 1 hr. lab. The negatives are grainy beyond
| belief! I don't mean the grain is just visible, I mean it is in clumps
and
| it obscures the sharpness and beauty of the photos. The difficulty is
| consistent through the entire roll of negatives.
|
|
| So, do I have a processing problem? Can poor chemicals, etc. at a 1hr lab
in
| a Fuji automated processor cause the grain to clump like this? Or, can
heat
| cause the film to be damaged before exposure and processing. The film was
in
| my car (not loaded in a camera) for a week and it got hot in the car due
to
| summer weather in San Diego. Before I nuke the lab I would appreciate the
| consensus of the group.
|
| Dave Dougherty
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