Target 1 Hour Photo Idiots

[Penguin_101_1]

I went to Target one hour to drop film off for reprints. I went, paid, left. I then get home and open it up to put the film from Christmas back and the film is MESSED up!:

www.tinypic.com/17e5v5

<-- There was the end of the roll that is GONE!
No one told me ANYTHING AND I PAID FOR IT! (I did get prints)
So I went back and there was someone else. "I can't fix this and print anymore. I don't know how it happened." Then I left knowing that ALL film will be going to my pro lab and I will NEVER return to there again.

[Belmondo]

Another argument for digital.

If they screw up your file, you have a backup.

If their machine eats your negatives, you're skrood.

Bummer, Penguin.

[Penguin_101_1]

There is an issue on how long digital will last though. http://www.itl.nist.gov/div895/preservation/
HD fails all your data is gone, cds can fail and if you back up you are spending the money that you would have spent on film on disks. Don't get me wrong, I shoot a lot of digital.

[Tom W]

Penguin, I'd take it up with the store manager. No need to get nasty with them, but they ruined your film - they owe you something (at least a 4-pack of Fuji-400) for your troubles. I certainly wouldn't expect big money in compensation, but there's often a little restitution. Plus you can go home with the knowledge that someone in the 1-hour photo department is about to get their butt chewed. :)

[Penguin_101_1]

I might write a letter. Then again, everyone makes mistakes.

[timmyquest]

Save yourself the hasstle. Your a digital man now.

Scanner+mpix.com/time spent=solution^2

[Penguin_101_1]

I have a scanner and a good photo printer. :)

[IndyJeff]

One thing you need to remember when Target, Wal-Mart etc hires people for thier labs they are not hiring someone with a vast amount of experience in photo labs. Chances are the applicant said he enjoys photography and skateboarding along with video games. They had plenty of people in toys and video games so he bacame their photography lab guy.
If he said he changes his own oil they might have made him their automobile section expert.

[timmyquest]

The folks at walgreens have a tag that says "trained professional"

...for what it's worth.

[Digital Prophet]

I will chime in just a bit.

The way I see it, if I take the time to shoot film and then go get it developed I am not going to take it to a one-hour place. That is not to say that all one-hour services are terrible. But I just don't want a minimum wage teen handling my film. At the very least I am going to take my film to a specialty shop. And before they get anything that matters (i.e. film for sales to clients) they get a few rolls of ... well crap.

Wal-Mart. Target. Walkgreens. I can't think of a any period of my than 2 months I have gone to these types of places and seen the same kid behind the counter. So even if you get one good set it might be a fluke. I like to know faces, names and what to expect.

I am just quirky like that.

- Digital Prophet -

[Penguin_101_1]

These were just X-Mas Pics that I wanted to reprint quickly and I didn't want to mess with. I never send anything good there, but I thought to save a few bucks I would just have them do it for .20 each.

[otlip]

You get what you pay for. I brought a disk to CVS for printing, the white backround was pink. The young man explained that this is the way the machine prints and that the color was correct. Not paying for the prints (.29) I took the disk to my local photo shop where I bought my DRebel. For .59 I got my pictures with the color correct!

Richard