[APML] Poor Blue in 400F?

[Alen Koebel <akoebel@rogers.com>]

I just got some recent 400F slides developed and I am
very disappointed with the blue response. For
instance, a 30 minute f/5 shot of the Pleiades yielded
NO reflection nebula at all. What the..? I got decent
blue response from the last roll of 400F and certainly
more than this even from E200. Could the lab have
screwed up the processing? Tired chemicals? I tried
this supposedly very good lab for the first time on
the recommendation of a fellow APer, so I have to
wonder. The film itself was fresh (Dec 2006 expiry),
was kept refrigerated until the day I started using
it, didn't experience high heat and I had it developed
a couple weeks after I took the pictures. 

You know, even if this isn't a lab problem, I've had
myt fair share of them (which is why I tried a new one
this time). I'm tired of them compromising, and in
some cases ruining, my efforts. I think it's finally
time to take them out of the equation. I hate to say
it but next year it's goodbye to film for me and hello
DSLR. 
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