Re: OK....enough beer and inflation talk. I'm sorry I started it!

[Tom Hodge <thodge@charweb.org>]

LUG'ers,

I just got a roll of Lumiere back from the local E-6 lab and there was a 
nasty note telling me my film was received damaged and couldn't be 
processed conventionally...extra charges becaz they had to out-lab it or 
something.  Film sprocket holes ripped to shreds, basically, so it 
wouldn't transport thru the auto E-6 developing machinery correctly.

I'm shooting the trusty CL and have never, ever had this happen before.  
I grabbed a roll of expired stuff I forgot to remove from another bag and 
went thru the normal procedures and didn't find myself doing anything out 
of the ordinary or unusual when loading or advancing the film.

I can't recall the "damaged" roll felt any differently while running it
thru the camera either - no grinding or ripping sounds - but the tension
sprocket DOES fell a tad stiff after opening the back up and playing
around. 

Any comments anyone?  Suggestions?  Similarities?  Or should I just 
blindly plow ahead with another roll?

BTW....suspiciously.....all exposures and frames came out OK and were 
mounted pretty well.

This is the same lab I've used quite a while and the same dude running 
the machine.....he's the one that made the decision to out-lab it and I 
think he's a pretty straight-shooter.

Thanks in advance!

Tom Hodge