>>3350097More and more labs are fucking up shots because their gear is breaking down or the chemisty is not being kept up.
Case in point, I shot some rolls of brand new Superia 1600 at an anime convention and every single print was desaturated without contrast, with an globule of distortion in almost every frame. Which is a shame because there were the bgones of some really great shots at night in the convention bar in there.
Found a roll of Superia 400 I'd used the year before at the same con, under the exact same lighting conditions, with the same camera, and not gotten developed - took them to a different lab and the colours were properly vivid.
Sometimes it's a scanning issue where somebody fucks up the levels or sets it to automatic. The left is a slide from a roll of Provia I did that looks fairly dissapointing. It's like someone set brightness to max and contrast right down, with the scanner out of focus.
The actual sliude however, has colour in the sky, richer colour in the foreground, details on the railing in the shadow, details on the cliff and even a view of the lighthouse 25km away.
