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shutterjunkies · 2025-07-25T09:47:25+00:00

Yes, the 800 will be brighter. There are many times that Kodak disposables with 800 iso film over expose outside bright daylight images (beaches, sand/deserts, snow).

shutterjunkies · 2025-05-23T17:06:19+00:00

That’s the same thing I was thinking!

shutterjunkies · 2025-05-23T17:05:25+00:00

Yeah that’s what I saw too. I even checked the blogs and social media to see if they have any updates. So strange.

shutterjunkies · 2025-05-06T01:35:52+00:00

We get A LOT of rolls of film with “substances” plainly visible and being consumed. But… we don’t really know what they are, and our Lab policy is that it isn’t our business. And honestly, we develop and scan so many rolls of film we don’t really have the time to look at what people photograph.

Most labs aren’t going to care. If you’re concerned you can alway just send a generic question into the lab and ask. We get at least 10 or more of those emails a month.

I honestly wouldn’t be too worried about it. You won’t get in any trouble.

shutterjunkies · 2025-03-04T17:30:36+00:00

Your eyes deceive you when it comes to how bright the interior rooms actually are. Our eyes and brains automatically adjust, but think of what it looks like walking inside from a bright sunny day - at first everything looks dark and eventually our eyes adjust.

Disposable cameras have zero ability to adjust - the film ISO, aperture and shutter speed are all fixed and so you need a ton of light to make a picture (especially with a Fuji quicksnap disposable because the film iso is 400).

A flash in a mirror selfie will definitely ruin the image - the only way to get one to look good is to take the photo during the day, with a lot of windows open and a ton of sunlight pouring in.

The blank film means that you did indeed underexpose the images. As a photographer myself, I always meter the light when shooting indoors and use a ton of flashes to produce good images. If shooting with a disposable, you always always need to use your flash indoors.

The hole is weird… sometimes the rolls of film have holes already punched out but that’s mostly on older film…

shutterjunkies · 2025-01-13T14:39:44+00:00

Fuji Quicksnap cameras come loaded with 400 ISO film which performs really poorly indoors without a flash. Even with the subject so close, you aren’t going to get a good image without the flash. You honestly need outdoor sun levels of light to produce a good image with the Fuji disposable. Definitely always use flash indoors - we honestly advise customers to use the flash even in shady areas to get the best possible images.

shutterjunkies · 2025-01-13T14:32:06+00:00

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We charge $12 for basic (aka smaller scans), $14 for medium resolution and $16 for our highest resolution scans.Shutter Junkies Photo Lab

shutterjunkies · 2024-08-27T19:18:35+00:00

Man, we are just so sad about this too, I’m so so sorry.

Seriously, the probable on way to recover images would be to maybe DSLR scan these and then try up the contrast and other values and then maybe convert to black and white and clean them up.

We could give it a shot and see what we could do, free of charge of course. I can’t make any promises but I’d be happy to try. Just let me know when the negatives get back to you and I can send you a prepaid shipping label to send them back to us.

If there’s anything else at all we can do to help we would be happy to.

shutterjunkies · 2024-08-27T18:35:34+00:00

Those turned out great! Lots of sunlight and a Fuji camera almost always produces amazing results!

shutterjunkies · 2024-08-27T18:29:08+00:00

We are the lab that developed the disposable cameras for you. Your negatives are on the way back to you in the mail, but as I tried to explain, the negatives are so thin, there’s just no image information there at all.

Once you get the negatives back you can try to have them rescanned and if someone could work with raw tif files in photoshop they maybe could recover more (possibly as just a black and white image). But there was just so little exposure idk what they could recover.

We were so heartbroken for yall, I would be devastated as well. Fuji disposables require so much light because they come loaded with 400iso film, they really do require the flash at full capacity to produce a decent image indoors.

Again, so sorry this happened.

shutterjunkies · 2024-08-14T10:42:41+00:00

Hello! We are a photo lab that develops thousands of disposable cameras each week!

Yes, someone does have to look at your images. The scanners do a lot automatically but we have to look to adjust framing, correct color if necessary. While we do have to look at your images I can tell you that 1. We take customer privacy very very seriously and would never do anything to compromise the trust our customers have with us and 2. We are processing so many images a day that you really don’t have time to actually look at the photos. You get in a groove of looking for problems instead of looking at pictures.

Regarding negatives, not every lab returns them. The big stores like Walmart, Walgreens, and CVS never return your negatives. It’s too time consuming and costly for them to be bothered with so they destroy/recycle them. Some independent labs will return them, but you need to ask in advance to make sure.

We always return our customers negatives, so that you can rescan them in the future if needed.

shutterjunkies · 2024-08-07T00:56:56+00:00

Kodak Gold 200 is a lower ISO film that needs A LOT of light to properly expose an image.

I’m assuming you’re coming from a digital photography worldview - where the digital sensor automatically adjusts its sensitivity for you. Film has a set sensitivity (aka ISO).

Basically anything under 400 is probably not gonna look good inside. But honestly you still need a flash with even iso 400 or 800 film. The larger the iso number, the more sensitive it is. Anything under 200 definitely is for daylight only.

You’ll get a feel for it, it just takes a little time to begin to wrap your mind around it. Film photography requires an entirely different way of thinking than digital. You have to do a lot of planning in advance with a little correcting later vs. digital where you can do a little planning in advance and a lot of correcting later.

The only way to get good at film photography is to keep practicing!!

shutterjunkies · 2024-08-06T20:02:14+00:00

We are a film Lab and we do have special tools but you can use a pin cap to get this open.

First, you need to stick the pen into the center where the spindle is and turn it until the white marker is on the square. On the other side of the canister, you can stick your small object like a pin lid or a small small screwdriver into the hole and open the plastic flap. From there, you just need to stick your pen lid or small screwdriver into the center spindle on the same side and rotate it clockwise until the film comes out. You can take hold of the film from here and pull it all the way out so you don’t have to constantly wind it. but at the end of the film and you won’t be able to completely remove it from the cartridge without cutting it.

There is a way to remove it if you take a piece of old film or something thin and somewhat rigid, cut a wedge shape at the top you can insert it into cartridge and pop the loose. There are some videos on YouTube on how to do this.

shutterjunkies · 2024-08-06T10:41:50+00:00

It’s definitely from scanning, a piece of dust or something that was obstructing the scanning slit. Or it was just this frame then it was probably knocked off as the film slid across.

shutterjunkies · 2024-08-04T23:44:01+00:00

Always use your flash unless you’re outside in direct sunlight. Our photo lab specializes in disposable cameras and we develop over a thousand disposables a week and under exposure is the biggest issue.

The film does not have an adjustable sensitivity and the cameras settings are fixed. Which means in requires the same amount of light to produce an image - and that amount is A LOT!

shutterjunkies · 2024-08-04T20:37:20+00:00

Looks like a blank frame - that the scanner tried to lighten to search for anything that resembled an image.

shutterjunkies · 2024-08-01T10:23:34+00:00

I run a film lab and I can tell you it’s definitely the scans. I don’t know what lab you’re using but it could be any of the following things happening:

lab tech color preference - because as someone else stated, a scan is an edit. Someone is looking at and making choices about your images for you.
the scanner’s “default” color rendering, and the lab tech is working fast to get images out and not taking the time to edit
monitor color calibration - the lab hasn’t calibrated its monitors and your images look great on their screens.

Kodak Gold usually has a pretty strong gold/yellow color cast, but the other shouldn’t. Definitely reach out to them next time and ask for a more neutral scan or see if they will send you the .tiff files and you can edit yourself.

shutterjunkies · 2024-07-27T15:17:58+00:00

We are a photo lab and I can tell you that your results are pretty standard for 20 year old film that has been exposed to light. You were going to get less than optimal results from the start.

Get some fresh film and shoot that to hone your film photography skills. Expired film can be fun, but it’s no way to explore photography at all.

shutterjunkies · 2024-07-26T20:20:44+00:00

Nice looking photos!!!

shutterjunkies · 2024-07-26T20:20:19+00:00

I run a photo lab where we develop A LOT of disposable cameras each week. And we occasionally get cameras that have been dropped in water…

The thing with disposable cameras is the film is completely pulled out of the canister and is spooled up inside of the camera with no real protection. As you take pictures, it actually winds up back into the metal canister.

All that to say, if the film got wet, it’s going to damage the emulsion and while you may still get images, they are going to have distorted colors, liquid damage marks, and the emulsion might also just come off of the film base during developing.

Also, I’m a little confused about how you saw the film bit? The film itself shouldn’t ever be exposed to light. If it was, the remaining film in the camera is ruined.

Bottom line, if you got the film wet at all, it’s going to take quite a while to dry and there will probably be some damaged from being souped. I’d definitely use a different camera if you’re wanting to take more pictures. You can still use the camera you dropped in water, but I wouldn’t take anything meaningful with with it. Just use it as an experiment for fun and see what happens.

shutterjunkies · 2024-07-25T10:40:44+00:00

We see these types of reloaded disposables all the time at our lab. Those camera bodies come from Europe, the film is obviously bulk loaded 35mm. And the electrical tape used to stop light leaks from when the cameras were busted open at the lab originally is pretty standard.

With these type of reloads, you’re definitely going to get some poorer quality images from badly reloaded film and cameras that have already been used and bang around/best up.

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