"too much" silver gel?

[spiderfrank]

Hi guys, I have a quastion...
Yesterday I went to the shop with a roll of Fuji Superia X-tra 400 iso film to develop:
the woman put the film into the machine, but when she had it in her hands, after the process, she said it had a "strange look", and that there was "too much silver gel" (?), so she cleaned (I think) the film and put it again into the machine.

The developed film is not very good, there are a lot of signs and some photos have poor colours: one has a magenta cast, but not in all the surface, the area near the boundary is ok, another is "soft" and seems like a "moved" shot even if the shooting time was very fast...

Sorry for my bad English, I hope somebody can explain me what's happened

Thank you
Franco

 

[eric]

Did she remove the film from the canister to clean it before processing it? 🙂

 

[Xmas]

If the manufactures edge printing is not ok you took it to the wrong mini lab shop. If the edge printing is good you have a camera fault.

Sorry

Noel

 

[spiderfrank]

The manufactures edge printing is ok, but there is this strange magenta (green on the negative) cast on the first shot, that's not only on the photogram, but also in the "white" piece of film before it, and it's like a large stripe in the centre, and the other ugly photogram is the last one, that's like it was blur, but I remember I used a very fast shooting time. Can you argue why she put the film in the mini lab for two times?

 

[jan normandale]

It's difficult to say, post a couple of the shots from the film into this thread. Otherwise we can't say too much.

 

[spiderfrank]

Ok, Jan, give me some minutes...

 

[spiderfrank]

 

[spiderfrank]

 

[rogue_designer]

bleach/fix problems can sometimes be corrected by additional chemistry, that could explain her trying to run it a second time.

however, this kind of color shift looks like a problem in the developer. Possibly chemical contamination in the processor.

Doesn't look like a film defect.

 

[Xmas]

Nice photos
Wrong mini lab

Noel

 

[markinlondon]

Sounds like the C41 equivalent of insufficient fixing to me. Looks a bit like it too. Sadly I don't know how to fix this with colour film only with black and white.

 

[spiderfrank]

Ok, thank you everybody, you are fantastic, guys! Coffe payed next time you come to Italy! (North west...)

grazie
Franco