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Abnormal frame spacing
I need to know, do the machines in most high volume autolabs automatically cut negatives, or are they still done by hand? I have a roll of c-41 ready to be processed that I had to stop mid-roll, rewound and removed from the camera fdor a while then put it back in and advaced back past where it was, which most likely means the frame spacing isn't going to be uniform at some point. I only question the place where I dump my color stuff off locally because if I ever try to squeeze a few extra frames onto a roll, the very last one will be cut right in half everytime. I don't imagine that any large semi-competant lab would be doing that if they cut by hand. I'd hate to have a machine keep assuming a uniform distance and chop every 5th image in half on the last 2/3rd of the roll.
The last local lab that isn't a wal-* that I know of in a reasonabel driving distance closed up about 2 years ago, so I'm pretty much stuck with mailers, or buckling and going to wal-greens.
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The one time I put some weirdly spaced 35mm through a mini-lab it came back un-cut in a film canister. They'd spotted there was something weird going on, and rather than mess it up, did it dev only (acutally I think they gave it back to me for free!).
If in doubt I'd just ask them not to cut it.
Ian
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In my experience (working at labs) film was cut manually on a little machine after printing (colour neg in tear off protectors) or with scissors (b&w in print file pages).
Even odd spacing problems etc were no problem, even with a slide mounter. The lab technician has to be on the ball, that's all...
Don't worry,
joe 
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I always get my negs uncut, because I don't like them cut in 4 frame strips
I like them in 5 frame to fit in a page for a loose leaf binder for ease of organizing and archiving.
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