Arista EDU Ultra 400 and flash impossible?

[Field]

Anyone else find when you use flash you get blown out white and blue like crazy???? I thought I overdeveloped the hell out of my first roll I shot with my Contax G2 but... Now I think the film is impossible with flash.

I just developed some in Kodax Tmax Developer at about 7:15, 71.5*F developer. The recommended at 68*F we use in the lab is 8:30.

A few of the pictures look great, but anything remotely close to the camera, anything blue, and many faces, are just like... white. (scanned)

The negatives are too dark, obviously.

P.S. I do NOT believe that this stuff is Fomapan 400 anymore. I have used Fomapan with flash on many occasions and NEVER got anything like these awful photos. They were never blown out. They looked better too.

 

[Mackinaw]

Easy questions first. Was the flash set to the right ISO? Were you using the right F stop on the flash? Were the non-flash pics OK?

Jim B.

 

[Field]

Easy questions first. Was the flash set to the right ISO? Were you using the right F stop on the flash? Were the non-flash pics OK?

Jim B.

Non-flash pics? Hm I would say even they look bad. They look way blown out too. There was only a couple on the roll. They did however have information that the sun was on, they were a bit extra lit, but not enough to equate for what I am getting. It just looks like if something is the tiniest bit overexposed it will turn it white.