*^&$%£%^&*& Lens Test

[Kim Coxon]

Having set up a lens test last weekend and spending half a day shooting the same shot under contolled conditions with at least ten 50's at different aperture settings, I send the film stock off for processing. Got home today and the envelope from the processors was on the mat. I eagerly opened the envelope and found someone's very boring holiday snaps :bang: :bang: :bang:

It looks like I will have to repeat the whole lot next weekend. I have been using this firm for over 15 years and it is the first time it has happened, it would be as I had promised the results on another thread. Oh well folks, at least I can take them again but you will have to wait a week longer!!!!!

Kim

 

[JoeFriday]

hey Kim.. look at it this way.. right now somebody who is very excited about seeing their holiday snapshots is opening your package 😀

 

[back alley]

bummer!

don't ya just hate that!

 

[GeneW]

hey Kim.. look at it this way.. right now somebody who is very excited about seeing their holiday snapshots is opening your package 😀

Kim, it is a bummer and I hope you can retrieve your prints. But now that Brett has planted the image in my head, I'd love to see the expression on the faces of the holiday shooter. And to see how long it takes him/her to register that the prints are the wrong ones...

Gene

 

[Kim Coxon]

I wonder what he will think of a whole roll of the "same" photo 😀

Kim

hey Kim.. look at it this way.. right now somebody who is very excited about seeing their holiday snapshots is opening your package 😀

 

[cp_ste.croix]

heh... what was the subject of your test roll? I hope it was something random to really perplex the holiday snapper!

 

[JoeFriday]

it should have been a newspaper taped to the wall.. the image framing an article on serial killers or something similar

 

[Kim Coxon]

No, just the back wall of the house.

Kim

 

[flashover]

They are going to think some wacko dosen't know how to use their camera. Sounds like me when I use my D1 at 4.5fps I tend to take several of the same shot ( I just like lissining to that shutter slapping away)

 

[sf]

another vote to quit using labs

 

[pvdhaar]

I have been using this firm for over 15 years and it is the first time it has happened

Although it's not pleasant to have this happen, one mistake in 15 years is not bad at all.

I've had this happen as well, but as the processing labs and photo shops maintain lists with ID-numbers per roll sent and received, they're often able to figure out with whom they've swapped the rolls.

It's worth a try to contact them about it..

 

[Sonnar Brian]

At least you will be able to give a very exact description of the image photographed.

After all, what are the odds that someone else would take an entire roll of a brick wall?

Return the Holiday snaps; someone is really upset over that as well.

I pick up my batch of rolls today. I'll look for bricks that I do not recognize. I should be able to recognize MY bricks!

 

[Kim Coxon]

Sorry not many bricks but I should recognize the stone!

The lab are trying to sort it and the holiday snaps are on the way back at their expense.

Kim

After all, what are the odds that someone else would take an entire roll of a brick wall?