alex_kronish

<p>I'm confused as to what you mean, because N and B have nothing to do with the flash (N is normal and B is long-exposure)<br>

The flash is that little switch next to the viewfinder. If it's orange the flash is still on.</p>

It also has a white flash in case you don't want to use the colors but it's still dark enough to warrant a flash.

The only problem is that the batteries go between the square mask and the front of the camera, so if the batteries die in the middle of a roll, you can't change them without exposing the roll.

I work for CVS so I can do it myself.

Up until monday we had a 10 year old Gretag 740+ where it was pretty much impossible to do anything advanced with it other than prints. However they just tore it up and installed a KIS 1670 lab so now I can actually do color correction and CD's. Unfortunately it's broken because the guys Kodak sent to install it were dumb as a post, but it should be fixed tomorrow when the new film scanner arrives. So I can process film but not print it.

The print quality is amazing compared to the old machine though.

with alot of foam, some electrical tape, and a pitch black room to unload the film in.

The shutter isn't stuck, I can see light through the lens when I clicked the shutter. It's very hard to have the aperture switch be in the middle on my camera, so I doubt that's it, but it's the only possibility I have to go on.

Alright I'll give those a shot.

Current plans: investigate the aperture switch,

Investigate the shutter to see if it's stuck

I threw the lens cap out.

And trust me, I would have noticed if the film was on the same side I loaded it on when I unloaded it. Mostly because if that happened, I wouldn't have seen the numbers through the back window.

I got a Holga a few weeks ago and today I got back my first roll from my local

MotoPhoto's send out service. However, I must have done something wrong because

the negatives came out completely blank. I know it's not a processing error

because I can still see the frame numbers and the "fujifilm 800" written on the

bottom of the negatives, and the first half an inch or so is obviously exposed

from when I loaded the camera.

Any ideas as to what I did wrong? I didn't have a flash for half the roll but

for those shots it was either daytime or a well lit room.

I currently have a roll of standard CVS brand 35mm film in my Holga, and I hope

I loaded it correctly this time, but of course I won't know until I process it,

which I can easily do myself since I work for CVS and am kodak certified to run

the 1-hour machine.

I work for CVS as a Shift Supervisor that doubles as a photo tech, so I'm inclined to say that we're the best, however, that varies greatly from store to store (most CVSes don't even have 1-hour labs and only offer send-out service to Qualex). And the stores that DO have 1-hour labs have very different machines. My store has a very old minilab that's kind of encrusted in brown gunk and can't do photo CD's from negatives, and prints so slow that we forward our 1-hour digital orders to the Kodak Picture Kiosk, while a newer store 10 miles away has a ton of options.

Anyway, our negatives come out fine, but the printing side screws up regularly and for a while there was a point where Kodak had to send out a field technician to fix it every few days.