Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/10/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 09:44 PM 10/5/2001 -0400, Johnny Deadman wrote: >I sincerely hope the lab folks ignore your kind help and open up the can, >thus avoiding making the film go through the light trap again and getting >scratched by the crud it picked up in the camera bag/your pocket/somewhere >you don't know! > >If I ever found a lab not opening a can I'd change my lab! >-- >John Brownlow One hour labs pull the film out through the cassette lips. That's how they do it in the daylight. They hook a plastic leader to the film tongue, stick it in a light tight box, stick the leader into the processor, close and lock the lid. If you don't leave the tongue out, they use a film leader snagger to pull it out of the cassette. But pro/commercial labs do not use these machines for the most part. They open the cassette and take out the film, just like we do in our own darkroom. Jim - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html