On Sun, 22 Oct 2000, Ray Moth wrote:
>Dear All,
>
>I just had a Fuji Superia 200 ISO film developed. The prints were
>hideous - washed out and blue-green in colour. I looked at the negs and
>saw that they, too, were washed out, with hardly any emulsion left.
>They also lacked the usual (orange) colour cast I'm used to seeing on
>colour negs.
ditto my last experience, but it was super hq 200, developed and printed
by fuji in LA
>I realise that there was no way the prints could be any
>good from a film like that. My wife selected the processing lab but I
>noticed that the envelope containing the negs and prints had "Konica"
>printed all over it. The camera used was a Leica Mini Zoom P&S, from
>which the results are usually good. The camera + film went through
>probably four X-ray tests at the airports of Jakarta and Medan (North
>Sumatra).
had four rolls of film (100, 200, 400x2) pass thru the xray for carryon
luggage aout five times. no probs.
>The possibilities that occur to me are: under-exposed by the camera,
>leading to washed-out emulsion; incorrect processing (is Konica colour
>negative film processed differently from Fuji Superia?); defective
>film.
i'd guess defective chemicals, not film altho it could be both. somehow, i
tend to doubt the chems more than the film.
>I'd be interested in people's ideas of what went wrong. ObOly: I'd hate
>to have this happen to a film taken with my OM!
been there, done that, haert breaking (vacation shots!)
/Acer V
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