Problem with prints

tennis12

I'm hoping you can help me out.
I took photos of my friends wedding with my canon Eos and used black & white film. Got it developed in a chemist and he said to give him 4 days. Went in today and said the machine broke 3 times this week but they were done.
A lot of the photos have white spots on them, (1mm in diameter), he said it was that the film was old (I bought the film in Boots 3 weeks ago, Ilford super 400 black & white) and that it wasn't his fault. The spots are on the negatives when I hold it up to the light. Is that the reason or did something go wrong in development?
Also all the photos are the wrong way around, if the person is standing on the right of an object in the negative, they are on the left of the object in the print, Mabey he put them in the wrong way.
Could anyone could shed some light on this please?

magicbastarder

do you have any scans you can show us?

magicbastarder

also, do you have any unused films from the same purchase? they should have a best before date.

tennis12

magicbastarder wrote: »

do you have any scans you can show us?

Lucky I still kept the box,it's 2017 it seems.

DaireQuinlan

Assuming there's nothing wrong with your camera, he really screwed up the development of that film. There should be dark marks on your film corresponding to those light spots on your prints. Are they raised slightly? If you rub your finger across then do they smear at all? It's either dirt on the negatives, probably oil or some kind of gunk from the development, or some sort of weird light leak. Hard to tell without looking at the neg.

I've shot stuff that expired before my eighty year old father was BORN and it came out looking better than that :-)

thefizz

Sounds like the lab screwed up. There is possibly dirt on the film and the reason the images are wrong way around is because they printed through the back of the film.

tennis12

Thanks for your help guys.
I'll call in tomorrow and have a chat with them. There is them black marks on the negitaves so I guess there's nothing to fix the spots but I want them at least the right way around & I'm gunna ask for a refund. Pity but at least my dad shot nearly all the same wedding photos on the Eos digital. Film was just for novelty.

thefizz

If you soak the film and gently wipe with a soft cloth, the marks may come off if they're just dirt. I'd give the lab hell. All they can do is replace the rolls of film for you though. I wouldn't use them again.

TheQuietFella

The beauty of digital!

Each to his own though.

Studio120

It's not the films fault someone made a balls or was sloppy when processing it.

tennis12

Studio120 wrote: »

It's not the films fault someone made a balls or was sloppy when processing it.

Thank you.
Going to go in this week and see what they say.