On 03/12/2019 11:04, Max Demian wrote:
On 03/12/2019 10:48, whisky-dave wrote:
On Sunday, 1 December 2019 23:34:33 UTC, Max DemianÂ* wrote:
On 01/12/2019 21:57, Richard Donnelly wrote:
Hi Nick, sorry to hijack your thread, but I seem to remember I have
an old Kodak camera which came in to my possession after he had
passed away in 1997. In the camera I noticed a little while back
thatÂ* the film had only been half used. May decide to take it some
where (if there is anyway that develops old 110 film) just to see
what the pictures he took were....That is if they will still be in a
state to develope.

I (rather foolishly) gave Boots a slightly out of date 110 colour film
to develop a few years ago and the prints came back purple. The girl in
the store refused even to apologise for the defect as she didn't think
it was anything to do with her.

Why should it have anything to do with her. ?

Corporate responsibility should be part of good customer service. Even

You submitted material for processing that had time expired. Colour
processing is rather tetchy about that sort of thing. Its not her fault.

if she had said it was because the film was out of date it would have
been something - though I don't remember whether she was aware of that.

She's a sales droid in Boots for heavens sake!

If you wanted it processed to work despite being dodgy you needed to
take it to the sort of specialist laboratory that knows how to work
around such ageing faults. TBH I can't think of any photo labs that
wouldn't just laugh at you using 110 film. Minimum size was 35mm with
6cm or half plate being the norm for most commercial photographic work.

If you still have those negatives digitising them and colour correcting
will probably get them back to something like right.

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Regards,
Martin Brown