Scratched negatives from lab

[Morb1]

Hi.
I shot a test roll with a new old evil SLR that I have just got. I just got the negatives back from the lab that developed the film, but I am disappointed to see that they are scratched very badly. Luckily there is nothing useful on the film as it was only a test. But I wonder if anyone have seen such marks before and can tell what have created them. I don't think it is the camera itself because some unexposed frames at the end of the roll still have scratches. The first photo is a scan of an unexposed frame.

On two of the frames something really bad happend (look at the second photo).

Any experience with such bad negatives?

 

[Dave Wilkinson]

Hi.
I shot a test roll with a new old evil SLR that I have just got. I just got the negatives back from the lab that developed the film, but I am disappointed to see that they are scratched very badly. Luckily there is nothing useful on the film as it was only a test. But I wonder if anyone have seen such marks before and can tell what have created them. I don't think it is the camera itself because some unexposed frames at the end of the roll still have scratches. The first photo is a scan of an unexposed frame.

On two of the frames something really bad happend (look at the second photo).

Any experience with such bad negatives?

I would first try another roll - at a different lab. or if you can dev.- yourself....a process of elimination.
Dave.

 

[AgentX]

Dwayne's Photo did a great job on my Kodachrome but put long, deep scratches along the length of several rolls of b/w. (From a mountain climb and safari, no less...not like they were casual shots...)

Couldn't have been the camera because the slides came out fine. Wondering if it was in processing or their (horrible) proof scanning that it happened.

Until I got Photoshop, I was spending hours trying to touch out the scratches with hordes of little dust-spotting circles. My Nikon scanner makes any imperfections massively obvious. The light source is really harsh. Ugh.