Developing damaged film?

[scotchegg]

Basically my camera got wet (very wet), and some of that moisture penetrated into the camera itself. I don't really know the extent of the damage of the film (if in fact there is any) but I know for a fact that after a few exposures it would not wind on at all.

My local Costco (where I normally get my film devved) have said to come back tomorrow to see what they can do (they are far too busy with orders to deal with damaged film) but in the meantime, is there a specialist I could bag it off to? I live in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where Costco is the only processor in a fair radius - I don't know of any devvers of film in Aberdeen itself (many have closed).

Thanks.

(Camera OM10 - Film 35mm)

 

[s162216]

Until recently I could have told you to send it to 'process C-22' who specialised in things like this but they appear to have gone out of business.

How important is the stuff on the film? If its not too important then I would send it to a good pro lab like Club 35 in London who will do good quality developing to see if anything is on it.

If not then you can always try Film Rescue International who are based in the USA and might be able to correct any of the damaged frames digitally after developing it. Its not cheap though as being based in the USA obviously increases postage costs.

 

[dd1989]

Basically my camera got wet (very wet), and some of that moisture penetrated into the camera itself. I don't really know the extent of the damage of the film (if in fact there is any) but I know for a fact that after a few exposures it would not wind on at all.

My local Costco (where I normally get my film devved) have said to come back tomorrow to see what they can do (they are far too busy with orders to deal with damaged film) but in the meantime, is there a specialist I could bag it off to? I live in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where Costco is the only processor in a fair radius - I don't know of any devvers of film in Aberdeen itself (many have closed).

Thanks.

(Camera OM10 - Film 35mm)

Find some one at Grey's school of art to do it for you in the dark room (or Aberdeen College)

 

[John Mc]

I doubt giving it to amature students would be a confident move. I've been developing film and producing prints for the past year and i'll only take business if its not important and vital. I know what its like to have film mucked up by someone with little skill.

Like Sam said, if its important,send it away to a specialist and hopefully they can recover the frames.

 

[excalibur2]

Basically my camera got wet (very wet), and some of that moisture penetrated into the camera itself. I don't really know the extent of the damage of the film (if in fact there is any) but I know for a fact that after a few exposures it would not wind on at all.

My local Costco (where I normally get my film devved) have said to come back tomorrow to see what they can do (they are far too busy with orders to deal with damaged film) but in the meantime, is there a specialist I could bag it off to? I live in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, where Costco is the only processor in a fair radius - I don't know of any devvers of film in Aberdeen itself (many have closed).

Thanks.

(Camera OM10 - Film 35mm)

The quicker you can get that film apart the better as it swells also sticks when drying...if you can take the film out in a light proof room and hang it up to dry, you can then rewind it back into the cassette. BTW you might have to force the end of the cassette off to get the film out, and it is possible to force the end back on the cassette after the film has dried and rewound back on the spool.

 

[Forbiddenbiker]

Is it colour or back and white?

The quicker you can get that film apart the better as it swells also sticks when drying...if you can take the film out in a light proof room and hang it up to dry, you can then rewind it back into the cassette. BTW you might have to force the end of the cassette off to get the film out, and it is possible to force the end back on the cassette after the film has dried and rewound back on the spool.

I agree. ..very light proof though, Sit there with you eyes wide open for a bit, if you can see stuff its not dark enough.

or find some experiancedl local who still does negs.... an hours work and labour charge maybe.

 

[scotchegg]

Costco said flat out NO, as it screws up the solution for other people. I asked if they could do mine as a 'last-of-the-bunch' job (ie just before changing solns.) but they refused that too on the grounds that the staff rota changes so often they couldnt be assed keeping tabs on it. (My interpretation).

I think I will just give up on the roll, as I said it had less than 12 shots before I replaced the film (the subsequent rolls were fine to be devved as they just came back earlier), of which I would only care for about 3 or 4 of them. I'm lucky my mates had equipment too and I will get the shots off them to fill my project with.

Thanks for the suggestions though, I'm sure when this happens again (which it probably will do) I will at least know what to do, haha. I could always surrender my film to the College and see what like they can make of it (heck, a mate could try, but he might just purposely say it was broken and charge me for the broken solutions


EDIT: Just checked out Club 35 and the price of standard devving to CD is actually not TOO steep. If they can deal with my problem then that would help. Just depends on my motivation over the weekend, horribly busy