Ok, well here is part 2 in the saga of the film developing.
I spoke with my good friend Steve, who is the Bandmaster at our Church, on Sunday about my disappointment in the development of my Iceland pics. Steve is a very good photographer so I trust his opinions.
He gave me some very good advice, which was to get some key pictures re-printed by a different developer and then compare them with the unnamed store's developing. Then I could take the reprints back to that store with proof that their development was, to put it nicely, VERY ORDINARY.
So I have put some key pictures in at London Camera Exchange (as there were some Egypt / Jordan pics still on one of the films and the LCE developed my other Egypt / Jordan ones so I know they were good).
In the meantime, the unnamed store reckoned they couldn't print some of my Northern Lights pics because their scanner couldn't pick up that there was anything on the negative - so I went to Snappy Snaps (as unfortunately LCE didn't think they could do it either) across the road to see if they could.
[Insert fanfare here] ta da! They could, and they did - you know, my impression of Snappy Snaps has gone way up. When they reprinted them, they had dust on their machines (reminds me of the store in Wallington - now that was a story) - they pointed it out to me when I came to pick up the photos and because it was the end of the day and they couldn't clean the machine and reprint it, they asked if they could keep it overnight and do it again (in fact they were unhappy to release the dodgy prints to me as in their eyes, they were unacceptable). Thank you very much, finally a company which takes pride in their work. And in customer satisfaction.
Either way, I'll let you be the judge. Here are the prints they got for me (which no-one else could). They're still quite grainy but that is because I didn't use the right speed film - live and learn, right?
3 comments:
Nice pics, Kyles. You did well - see, much better to compare with different photographic printers. BTW, does this mean there are also Southern Lights?
Ta Mel
Yes, there are Southern Lights - funnily enough they're called Aurora Australis!
I seem to remember reading somewhere on the net that they have been seen in Tassie but I can't find that again so I don't know for sure. But there's a website with pics of them from NZ, and also Antarctica.
I think now I've seen the Aurora Borealis, it might be time to see the Aurora Australis.... what do you think?
they look as if the aliens are attacking us on planet earth.... should I be scared? AND YES you should DEFINATELY come and see the southern lights! the lights at 20 Lerose Ave are very nice...
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