I'm on my 2nd camera of this model, both bought used. Today I was trying to take some pics and the thing started bouncing around different menus without input from me. I replaced the battery on principle and it gave me a message "Firmware Update: Battery Should Be Fully Charged" The next message said something about "Update Failed". I can't replicate the problem but am afraid it will appear again at a bad time; ie any time I'm trying to take pics. I haven't been to Fuji's website yet. I'm afraid the camera is no longer supported. Is there some kind of internal timer that gives the update message? Does anybody have any experience with this, or advice about what I should do? I am hesitant to connect my camera to my computer to the internet for the obvious reason. My camera, desktop computer, and phone are discrete devices and never connected more than 2 at a time. I never connect my camera through my computer to the internet and don't want to.
Both the age of the film and the storage conditions you describe will almost certainly result in degraded quality. Most film from disposable cameras is also underexposed as well. The process used to develop the film will be the same regardless of who processes it, the key is to find a lab that uses "good" chemistry. Your local drugstore likely does not receive enough film each day to keep their chemistry healthy. Your best bet (in my opinion) is to "send it out" to a large wholesale or professional lab where they still run control tests and the pool of film they receive maintains their chemistry. Most likely the resulting film will produce prints with a magenta/blue color shift. Depending on the severity, some of that can be corrected in the scanning/printing process.
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