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Author Topic: A Scanner Darkly lab issues Alex Grueneberg Expert Film Handler Posts: 125 From: Chicago, IL Registered: Aug 2004 posted 07-09-2006 12:16 AM                        Greetings, I am just curious if any one else who has A Scanner Darkly has had any bad reel lab issues. Reel 4 of my print #41 had complete digital fail, and extensive color shifting (mostly fading from blue to yellow). It also had SR fade out. The replacement reel I ordered just came in. I put in on just in time for tonights 10:20 show. The replacement reel playing right now gets VERY dark at parts (almost black) and some digital fail. The replacement reel was from a used print, however I'm not sure where it came from and the Network Curior was very rushed and wanted to leave before I could really ask him any questions. Why the previous theater didnt notice the issue i'm not sure.. Regardless, any one else having problems? And how much crap can I give ETS about sending me another defective reel? [ 07-09-2006, 04:14 AM: Message edited by: Alex Grueneberg ]  |  IP: Logged Mike Schindler Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1039 From: Oak Park, IL, USA Registered: Jun 2002 posted 07-09-2006 01:38 AM                     Hey, I saw the first show of that at your theater! Other than the lab issues, very nice presentation. I'm going to go there more often.  |  IP: Logged Alex Grueneberg Expert Film Handler Posts: 125 From: Chicago, IL Registered: Aug 2004 posted 07-09-2006 03:53 PM                        Hey thanks! glad you noticed and were happy. Slowly but surly the place is getting better. [ 07-13-2006, 09:17 AM: Message edited by: Alex Grueneberg ]  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 07-10-2006 08:57 AM                        quote: Alex Grueneberg I am just curious if any one else who has A Scanner Darkly has had any bad reel lab issues. Reel 4 of my print #41 had complete digital fail, and extensive color shifting (mostly fading from blue to yellow). It also had SR fade out. The replacement reel I ordered just came in. I put in on just in time for tonights 10:20 show. The replacement reel playing right now gets VERY dark at parts (almost black) and some digital fail. Color shifts, especially at the head and tails, or near a lab splice, may be due to safelight fogging, where the unprocessed film was exposed to a safelight for too long. When the film gets fogged, both picture and sound may be affected.  |  IP: Logged Bill Gabel Film God Posts: 3873 From: Technicolor / Postworks NY, USA Registered: Jan 2002 posted 07-10-2006 12:58 PM                     The few prints that I've run in the last two months here in NYC have run fine with no problems.  |  IP: Logged Carl Martin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1424 From: Oakland, CA, USA Registered: Feb 2002 posted 07-20-2006 03:55 AM                        hmm, i just saw this, and reel 4 was a little sketchy, but not as here described. there were little splotchy patches here and there throughout the reel, as if a rodent with dirty feet had trod all over it, or someone had spritzed it with the world's tiniest spraypaint can. it could have been redeveloper splotches, i suppose. they never seem to look the same way twice.  |  IP: Logged John Pytlak Film God Posts: 9987 From: Rochester, NY 14650-1922 Registered: Jan 2000 posted 07-20-2006 07:21 AM                        If the print has a silver + dye analog soundtrack, there is a possibility that the marks you see are soundtrack developer splashes. If the viscous caustic soundtrack developer splashes or seeps in to the image area, it will leave a silver deposit. Soundtrack developer application issues were a significant source of print waste and make-overs.  |  IP: Logged

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