Re: [APML] Slide Film Developing

["Joseph O'Neil" <joneil@multiboard.com>]

>  Also beware of any E-6 processor that is not
>"dip and dunk"...they will grind whatever is on the rollers into your film.
-snip-

Hi Tony;
         In a strange way, that might be the one compelling reason to 
develop your own E6.  Every time a local photo lab goes belly up, I try to 
haunt the local baliffs auctions, etc, to see if there is any gear worth 
buying.   99.9% of the time the used darkroom and processing equipment is 
simply filthy, dried chemitry and other stuff all over everything.
         I think the pressures on photo labs to be compeditive  with 
Wal-Mart and Costo means chemistry is pushed past exhaustion, and equipment 
is never properly cleaned and servied, just run into the ground.  There are 
labs that take pride in their developing, but IMO, they are the exception, 
and worth supporting when you find one.
joe



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