P3D Re: Processing woes

["Hershel Saylor" <saylor@xxxxxxx>]

Several years back, I too had many rolls of film come back
marked as "unexposed".  The frame numbers were on the
roll and they truly looked like I had made a mistake.

At that time, I had been using cameras for over 25 years.
The different rolls had been shot over a time period of many
months.  They had been shot with multiple cameras (including
my Vivid).  Other than those roll, I have only had about three
blank rolls returned in all my years of photography.

Now, when the processing place insists that maybe I had a
defective camera, or I didn't check to see if the film was advancing,
or I brought in rolls that I hadn't use yet, I was not very kind.

Since then, I have not had any other blank rolls.  I know myself
but do not know the processing personnel.  I am convinced that
it was their mistake.  I don't know if they have access to new
film, but I think maybe after destroying my film, someone ran
new film through the machine and sent me the results!!!

                                     Hershel



>Rod Sage wrote:
>>
>> How could an entire roll turn out completely clear? I
>> would have had to pull the entire length of the film out of the
cassette
>> accidentally and forgotten about it. That camera never had problems
>> before or after.  I'll always think something fishy happened..
>> RDS
>
>
>Rod,
>
> Pulling the entire length of film out of the cassette would result
in a
>totally black film strip, not clear.  If the image area was clear,
but
>numbers and bar codes appeared, the problem would have been in your
>camera.  With no numbers or barcodes, just a totally clear strip, it
>would be a processing problem.
>
>Sorry to hear about this.
>
>Dave Williams
>Kansas City, MO