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Originally Posted by Rona|d
Scratches? Itīs always the camera, donīt you know? Just ask your local lab! They even blamed my Leica for the water stains on the last rolls they "developed"  |
Strikes a chord that does. It's why I don't go to my local Boots. There was once a very ugly couple of scratches near one end of my film, perpendicular to the direction of travel. The technician at the photographic service of the university where I used to work said ot was caused by gross carelessness loading the film into the processing machine. Boots insisted that it was my camera, and added insult to injury by offering to clean it out for me!. Next time I was passing I saw half a dozen newly processed films awaiting printing just slung over the edge of the machine. I pointed this out to the assistant and told her that that was exactly why I would never ever use them again. She just shrugged.
Fortunately I have since found an excellent local independent lab.