Ruined b&w film, who's fault?

[venchka]

There you go. DX coding isn't idiot proof. You can't override the DX coding in many cameras either.
Measure twice. Cut once.

[KD5NRH]

Originally Posted by PhillipT

I forget where I went, but I have a few disks of when I shot some pictures of my truck and the scans are incredible. But, more often than not there's all sorts of problems. Have to find the film holder attachment for our scanner, it doesn't seem to work well w/out it.

Here's trick I ran across online and haven't had time to try yet, but it sounds like it would work great for curled negs and other issues. Get a couple sheets of magnet stock, the floppy stuff that they use to make advertising magnets and magnetic car signs. Cut a hole to mask off one to six frames, depending on how tightly supported you want the film, and put a strip of tape along one edge as a hinge. Stick the negs in between the magnet sheets and scan.

If your scanner's DOF is picky, you can shim the bottom sheet with cardboard.

[Daniel W.]

Funny thatn you metion that Joe, sounds like a cheap Flextight holder to me! The Hasselblad Flextight holders are flexible metal+ magnet stock to hold it down.

[KD5NRH]

Originally Posted by Daniel W.

Funny thatn you metion that Joe, sounds like a cheap Flextight holder to me! The Hasselblad Flextight holders are flexible metal+ magnet stock to hold it down.

Yikes...they're also several orders of magnitude more expensive than a couple sheets of magnet stock.

[PhillipT]

Originally Posted by KD5NRH

Here's trick I ran across online and haven't had time to try yet, but it sounds like it would work great for curled negs and other issues. Get a couple sheets of magnet stock, the floppy stuff that they use to make advertising magnets and magnetic car signs. Cut a hole to mask off one to six frames, depending on how tightly supported you want the film, and put a strip of tape along one edge as a hinge. Stick the negs in between the magnet sheets and scan.

If your scanner's DOF is picky, you can shim the bottom sheet with cardboard.

That's awesome, I'll try it when I can.

[zane]

I took some NON C-41 B&W film to Walgrens & fortunately the girl noticed it ...
the 1 hr joints ONLY do C-41 film... I went to Arlington Camera & they had to send it to a lab in Dallas...

[studiocygnet]

To the original poster Phillip, you're profile says you're in Austin. If you shoot more Tri-X and don't want to develop it yourself, we've got Holland Photo here on South Lamar that does it. They do the black and white for Precision Camera, and probably a lot of other out of town places that ship it in.

[PhillipT]

Originally Posted by studiocygnet

To the original poster Phillip, you're profile says you're in Austin. If you shoot more Tri-X and don't want to develop it yourself, we've got Holland Photo here on South Lamar that does it. They do the black and white for Precision Camera, and probably a lot of other out of town places that ship it in.

Can they do oldschool 120 film as well? I picked up a camera awhile back that has an exposed roll of 120 in it. I've been meaning to drop by Precision to ask them, they were recomended to me by that little antique shop on S. Congress, over where Homeslice and such is at.

[studiocygnet]

yep, Holland does all film. Precision does their own color processing, the send the old school b&w over to Holland.

[Buddha]

Philip, I'm not sure where you are on this, but you should check out
Holland Photo Imaging
for professional film development. I think they will scan images, too.
Precision Camera on North Lamar will do professional level color developing and will scan negatives at the time of processing for about $6-7.
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Both give predictably good results and come recommended by alot of people besides me.

[venchka]

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