Originally posted by hyun
There was a thread that RGB has a tendency to snip off part of your last frame (part furthest from the tongue of the film). This is because they use a metal weight to hang the film during drying and that weight has to eat into part of the film to take grip.
Q: Does that happen for ALL slide development labs?
Q: RGB Color snipped off part of my frame while it was cutting the strips of film to put into the sleeves. What do you think is the usual compensation for that sort of carelessness? Free 1 roll development?
Q: Of the 2 RGB Color branches, which is better, and why?
thanks ...
Hi
just curious....are u a Nikon user? :devil:
i dun think it's to do with clipping them during drying. The dip and dunk method is supposedly superior, but it requires that they clip your film in order to start processing it. Not all labs use that process, from wat i understand. ColorLab does not.
i have never had the problem when processing film shot with my Canon system, since my camera limits me to 36 frames (i believe all Canon EOS systems do that) and no more. the
only time i actually encountered the dreaded clipping is when i used my Leica M6 and shot one particular roll from frame 0 to about 38 frames - the last frame was slightly bent at the end, presumably due to the clipping. but that was never really bothered me since
1) i'm not supposed to be shooting from frame 0 to 38
2) i usually rewind when i hit 36 or 37.
I only go to the Beach Road branch (out of convenience than anything) and i've gotten to know the lady there well enough that she usually knows wat i want and need before i even said it. the service is excellent and all my slides, negs and black and white go there now, and no where else.
RGB produces the cleanest negative or slides in my experience. Someone mentioned it must be due to the chemical they used, but watever it is, the service is good, and FAST, and their rates for pushing film is dirt cheap. (pushing is something i do quite often)
As for accidentally snipping off your frame, well i suppose accidents and mistakes do happen. ColorLab once mounted a roll of slides for me so poorly that the slide mounts are coming apart for some of the slides. So i guess human errors are inevitable!