Dodgy One Hour Photo Development

Zamboni

Hi guys,

A friend uses a bog standard 35mm camera and last used it on her holidays.
The photos came out fine (mostly beach lanscape shots).

About a month later she used it to take photos of her sons soccer game.

Anyway she left the 24 roll into a One Hour Photo the other day and when she got the pictures back of the soccer game there were other pictures that appeared on each photo.

The pictures were upside down and were obviously taken at some Halloween party and my friends has no idea who these people are.
But each of the soccer pictures are ruined now. (Her kids first competition)

She rang the One Hour Photo and explained but was told these images were on the film and 'must be reflections'.
She replied that a Halloween party in a bar on a football pitch was unlikely.

So could anyone please explain what happened?
Did the operative wreck the negatives with another set during development?

Any help?

magicbastarder

are the unwanted images actually visible on the negs?

Zamboni

magicbastarder wrote: »

are the unwanted images actually visible on the negs?

I don't know.

The One Hour place claims that they are.

But my friend is insistent that the camera has not been used by anyone and that she knows absolutely none of the 20 or people that feature in the various pics.

I thought there may be some error in the development process where some other negatives may have been accidently exposed to my friends film.
(Wild guess btw)

Paulw

Sounds like they processed two films together, over each other giving the ghostly negatives/prints.

Maybe the negatives are alright, and they just processed two sets of negatives over each other. A full set of reprints might be enough.

DaireQuinlan

Zamboni wrote: »

Hi guys,

A friend uses a bog standard 35mm camera and last used it on her holidays.
The photos came out fine (mostly beach lanscape shots).

About a month later she used it to take photos of her sons soccer game.

Anyway she left the 24 roll into a One Hour Photo the other day and when she got the pictures back of the soccer game there were other pictures that appeared on each photo.

The pictures were upside down and were obviously taken at some Halloween party and my friends has no idea who these people are.
But each of the soccer pictures are ruined now. (Her kids first competition)

She rang the One Hour Photo and explained but was told these images were on the film and 'must be reflections'.
She replied that a Halloween party in a bar on a football pitch was unlikely.

So could anyone please explain what happened?
Did the operative wreck the negatives with another set during development?

Any help?

Tell her to check the negatives. There's a couple of possibilitys. One is that during the scan/print phase the lab screwed up and two rolls went in back to back. Another is that the film had been previously exposed but thats pretty unlikely because it would have had to have been exposed ... the leader left out ... and the entire roll would have had to have been shot upside down (given that 99% of cameras wind the film the same way). I'd be surprised if the actual negatives are screwed up though, I can't imagine any mistakes during development that might imprint one set of negatives on another set. I don't think even putting them through the development process with their emulsion sides jammed together would do that, although I could be wrong ...

D.

Zamboni

Cheers guys,

She left the photos in the shop as the developer was gone out.

I am going to go in with her tomorrow and ask to see the negatives and ask for re-prints.
She is quite dismayed about it becuase of her sons first match so hopefully the negatives are ok.
My problem is though, if the shop has damaged the negatives and she asks for her money back, she can't really prove it...

DaireQuinlan

Zamboni wrote: »

Cheers guys,

She left the photos in the shop as the developer was gone out.

I am going to go in with her tomorrow and ask to see the negatives and ask for re-prints.
She is quite dismayed about it becuase of her sons first match so hopefully the negatives are ok.
My problem is though, if the shop has damaged the negatives and she asks for her money back, she can't really prove it...

Ask to see the negatives ? Surely SHE has the negatives
If the actual negatives themselves have double images printed across them upside down, I actually can't think of a single way that it could have happened in normal usage that could cause it. Shop is almost certainly to blame. The bad thing is that even if they give her the money back, the pictures are still ruined, not much they can do about that unfortunately. Hopefully the negs are ok though.