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Going through some old negs at the moment & I'm coming across all this good looking stuff I'd either forgotten about or was too ignorant to realise was any good! Then I came across this really cool looking roll that I'd completely forgotten about. I was then reminded of why I don't have any negs in Jessops bags any more! The story goes something like this..
About 4 months ago I sent some film away to Jessops for processing, printing and scanning. I spent the best part of 15 minutes explaining to the lab person that I put it through a panoramic camera, which has double the frame length & exposes the sprocket holes, so they were either not to cut the film at all, or cut it properly and scan with sprocket holes. I went back an hour later to find that nearly every one of the frames was cut (badly) in half, they printed as normal 35mm cropped to fit 5x7 paper & scanned 5x7. It took another 15 or so minutes to explain to the lab person what she/someone else had done. Eventually she had to get the manager because she couldn't understand that they were chopped through the middle of the frame. The manager was actually pretty decent and very apologetic. He offered me most of the Fuji C200 film they had in stock (about 20 or so rolls) and a free re-scan & print at the bigger Jessops down the road that would be able to stitch them together somehow. I didn't take the film since I only use black & white and slide film occasionally. After a week the other place had finished scanning & printing. Nearly right this time! They'd scanned & printed the sprocket holes but left it as a normal frame & 'forgot' to stitch them together (even though it was in big red writing on the bag thingy). They looked absolutely clueless when I tried to explain the situation & basically told me to get my own scanner :bang:
Thought that was worth sharing with the film people here as another little incentive not to use Jessops
A good thing has come out of it though. I've been doing my own processing, scanning & printing ever since
-J
About 4 months ago I sent some film away to Jessops for processing, printing and scanning. I spent the best part of 15 minutes explaining to the lab person that I put it through a panoramic camera, which has double the frame length & exposes the sprocket holes, so they were either not to cut the film at all, or cut it properly and scan with sprocket holes. I went back an hour later to find that nearly every one of the frames was cut (badly) in half, they printed as normal 35mm cropped to fit 5x7 paper & scanned 5x7. It took another 15 or so minutes to explain to the lab person what she/someone else had done. Eventually she had to get the manager because she couldn't understand that they were chopped through the middle of the frame. The manager was actually pretty decent and very apologetic. He offered me most of the Fuji C200 film they had in stock (about 20 or so rolls) and a free re-scan & print at the bigger Jessops down the road that would be able to stitch them together somehow. I didn't take the film since I only use black & white and slide film occasionally. After a week the other place had finished scanning & printing. Nearly right this time! They'd scanned & printed the sprocket holes but left it as a normal frame & 'forgot' to stitch them together (even though it was in big red writing on the bag thingy). They looked absolutely clueless when I tried to explain the situation & basically told me to get my own scanner :bang:
Thought that was worth sharing with the film people here as another little incentive not to use Jessops
A good thing has come out of it though. I've been doing my own processing, scanning & printing ever since
-J