I shot a couple of rolls of color print the other day, and since I intended to just scan the negs and process the prints digitally, I dropped the rolls off at the local 29 min photo place. BIG mistake! While there was, in fact, image on the negs, they appeared to look unprocessed. The thick "beige haze" covered over the images for the most part. The man said, "The film must be old." He did manage to get some sucky prints out of them, but they will not scan. Period. I took the negs to Pro Photo Connection in Irvine, CA to see if anything could be recovered. After much examination and after confirmation with film strips, the photo engineer at Pro Photo Connection concluded that the problem was chemical in nature, the negs had not been "bleached". The damage was permanent.
Lesson: Deal with professionals - only. Regards, Bob... -------------------------------------------- "Do not suppose that abuses are eliminated by destroying the object which is abused. Men can go wrong with wine and women. Shall we then prohibit and abolish women?" -Martin Luther
