I left my 160VC film there to develop, print, and scan. I was able to drop it off at lunch and picked it up after work. The color came out awful but I can't argue with that because it could be anything but their error.
Then after I took the prints home, I found out they were all printed dusty and laterally inverted, i.e. mirror images, including the scans. By the way, the scans were pretty awful too. But I would only comment on dust.
The following day I brought back the whole envelop to the shop and the lady at the counter just wanted to examine the negative ... with her bare hands, running her well manicured fingers on the negative, not so much as caressing or holding on the edge but just as if holding on toilet paper or something. Anyway, I dared not say a word except whining here. She agreed to have it redone. But somehow, she never said "sorry" or anything to that extent.
The machine was kind of broken so I had to call to make sure it's available. And it was available after work. I went there to pick it up again. The pictures printed out right meaning they were laterally correct this time. But they didn't give me the CD-ROM. So the guy did it on the spot, burned one CD for me. I couldn't check it on the spot so I went home, and found out the images were all laterally inverted. Bravo.
They just couldn't do anything right the first time or even the second time. I should know and it's my fault. Would I let them do my film photos again, maybe. Who knows.
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