New Adventures in Retail

[nmg]

Last Tuesday, I dug out a pair of old, undeveloped black and white films and took them to be developed at the branch of Boots on Portswood high street. The results were rather good, so I dug out another pair of old, undeveloped black and white films last weekend and took them in this morning, only to be told by the assistant that they don't do black and white unless they're C41 colour process. Right. Pointed out that I had, in fact, taken two identical films (Kodak TMAX 400) into that very branch some seven days previous, and that they'd been developed without any problems. It took five minutes of me saying "yes, but you developed the same filmstock last week, no these aren't C41 process, but yes, you processed identical films last week" before the lass went off to make a phonecall to go and check. Lo and behold, they do accept them, but she was "only covering her back". The customer is presumed wrong until proven otherwise, it would appear.

The irony is that my last experiment in C41 black and white film, some seven years ago, was comprehensively screwed up by (a different branch of) Boots, who processed the damned things as sepiatone without being asked, and managed to accidentally expose part of the film in processing.

Comments

[nannyo.livejournal.com]

I am VERY angry about black and white film at the moment, as I have just taken 2 rolls of holiday photos to the fotoview studio upstairs that proudly proclaim they do black and white....MY ARSE... all of our black and white holiday snaps look like they were taken in a snow storm, the clear definition and sharpness I want and have had in the past from b&w is just not there, and it looks like it's on the negatives as well. I don't know whether I should pay them or not, but I really don't want to give them 15 quid for crap work. Also half of one of my films appears to be blank, and I don't know whether I can blaim them for that, as there isn't a problem with my camera...argh ra ra rahhhhhh
One was an ILFORD film, one a kodak TMAX, both appear to be rubbishly processed.
grrrrr

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

Holiday?
Airports?
X-Ray baggage scanners?

[nannyo.livejournal.com]

it doesn't look like x-ray fogging, it just looks like they have processed the film wrong. Although I know that's what they will tell me. He tried to blame it on heat damage, but as the films were in the fridge when they weren't in the camera, it's unlikely.
N.