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So I was in the photo lab at my school today, and some girl was just getting ready to develop her film just as I was. So as I'm doing the first water rinse of my film, she pours some chemicals into one of my cups and apparently said "It's the last one" and that she had poured too much in hers. Well I didn't really know what she meant, so I thought she was pouring an ounce of developer in my cup.

Come to find out, it WASN'T developer but hypo-clear instead! When she said "last one" she meant the last chemical you use. So I went hypo-clear, fixer, and then when i was reaching to get some hypo she told me "I already gave you hypo-clear" I'm like "WAT" "yeah, it was the first thing I gave you..." I was pissed, "SO YOU MEAN I "DEVELOPED" WITH HYPO INSTEAD OF DEVELOPER!!" "um...i guess?" FUCKING BITCH!!!!

Well I tried to develop it anyway, and when I poured out the developer it was very purpleish (all the silver coming off the film, this is b&w btw). And yeah, the film was completely blank when I pulled it out of the tank.

So yeah, what photo fuck ups have you guys done?
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>> Teus !QbSstcPD6U
just a moment ago, I was making contact sheets and spilled some water on the paper sheets I store my film in. dhrama ensued, with wet film and paper sticking to the emulsion. had to soak everything, add hypo, wash and clean the strips by hand.
a lot of trouble to dry such short strips of film, in the end.
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
I actually started a similar thread to this with this story back in the day, but I'll tell it again:

I shot a roll of Delta 3200, got some really good shots on there, really looking forward to seeing 'em. I went to develop 'em, felt like I was doing great, didn't screw up any of the steps...

except for the "load the developing tank" step. I had both spools in the tank, and I put the film in the top one instead of the bottom one. A few of the frames were vaguely usable just because they got a shot of developer when I sloshed it around, but mostly it was just fail.

I was sad.
>> Teus !QbSstcPD6U
>>and I put the film in the top one instead of the bottom one
I used to use just a single reel in a two-reel tank. now I put the unused one on top of the first, and double-check every time I didn't swap them around ;)
>> Anonymous
ITT fuckwits who need to go buy shitty digital cameras and stay away from real photography
>> ac !!VPzQAxYPAMA
>>156512
Yeah, after that little fuckup, I started just using a single reel.
>> Anonymous
I shot 2 rolls of Ilford HP5 Plus 400 B&W (of things that can't possibly reproduced >.<), took it to my local photography shop to get developed (don't have the resources to do it myself), and when I came back, turns out they did color developing on them =/ Does that count as a photo fuckup?
>> Anonymous
>>156613
Did they at least give you few free rolls of film for compensation?

I usually make it very clear to the shop what process my film needs.
>> Anonymous
When /p/ fucks up, it fucks up with class.

Film sounds fun, just started toying with it myself but have yet to try developing. Most fuckup I did was accidentally hitting delete or forgetting I had a spare card and shot in smaller frames instead. Digifag :(
>> Anonymous
>>156632
Nope, she said sorry and that was it x-x (although, I didn't ask, but I didn't hope for much..)
>> Anonymous
I got a new OM-1 and was all psyched to use it. Shot my first two rolls with flash at 1/125

...The sync speed of the OM-1 is 1/60
>> Anonymous
I once developed a roll of APX 100 and was hanging it up to dry in my bathroom when I realized I'd forgotten my squeegee downstairs in the darkroom. So, instead of doing the smart thing and going down to get it, I figured "No prob, I'll just wipe the negatives down with toilet paper." So , I did, and when the film had dried I realized that hundreds of little pieces of toilet paper had adhered themselves to the emulsion and 90% of the roll was ruined. Needless to say, never doing that again.
>> des
The one that comes to mind first is killing two rolls with dillute D76. A buddy of mine is hanging out and he starts a tank for me when I went to go get food.

"I'm at three minutes" I take over, he comes back in after eating, I've got it rinsing. "You're done already?" lolwut. I use d76 straight almost all the time, he runs 1+3.
Stuff from Ireland, too. Nothing printable. He felt really bad but it's nobody's fault.

Friends don't let friend drink and develop.
>> Butterfly !xlgRMYva6s
I've had some canonfag borrow my CF and missheard "dont" for "do" when asking if he could format my cards.

There went all my christmas photos <3~
>> Blackadder !!bSWRwu/NqzQ
>>156496

2photographers1cup ?
>> Anonymous
worst that happened to me is after I was done with the developer, I poured it out, and the lightproof funnel fell out, along with the reel. Didn't really do anything to the roll though, other than slightly solarize the negatives, which didn't affect the prints too much.
>> Anonymous
>>156613
You really expected your local photolab to know better? I work at one can tell you for a fact that hardly any of them develop D76 and even fewer have any staff that would know the difference.
>> Anonymous
>>157224

Agreed.
Unless it's a specialty shop most places don't do anything BUT color development.
>> Anonymous
OP, do you by any chance go to a community college? My photo class meets on Mondays and Wednesdays and that sounds like something that would happen in my class.
>> Anonymous
reminds me of a story that my photo prof told me one time.

Back when he was still shooting film, he got contracted by 2 national newspapers to go cover this school shooting. It was the first time he got a job from a national paper, and since he got two of them, he was basically getting paid double for the same gig. Shot something like 15-20 rolls of film, but didn't have the chemicals with him to develop himself, so he dropped them off at one of the local 1-hour places. When he came back, they told him 5 of his rolls had been ruined because some new guy they had on turned on the lights at the wrong time or something. He still got shots he needed, but most of the real hard-hitting emotional stuff was on the ruined rolls.
>> Anonymous
Sounds like it's your fault on this one, she told you it was the last one, and you didn't even ask but just interpreted it yourself. You're fail.
>> ME
I work in one too. The general population has NO IDEA about film and whats worse is that the people developing film don't either. It's ridiculous. I learned everything I know from a veteran Indy car and band photographer and he's been developing his own photos for YEARS....now he runs a photo lab.....but once you find your lab....you'll stick with the same one for years.
>> Anonymous
>>157417
When I read it, I thought she meant the last of the developer, like, she emptied a bottle into her cup but it was too much. That's how I would've interpreted it at the time.

Fuckup for me. I was using a Canon A-1 which can meter and adjust automatically. It requires me to have the aperture ring set to "A" but I had it on something else and the manual aperture was disabled which meant I've been shooting at f/1.4 the whole time and overexposing the whole damn roll.
>> thefamilyman !!rTVzm2BgTOa
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stupid thing i've done was open the back of the camera while there was a roll sitll in it (actually a couple of times, my Petri doesn't have a film window).

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>> linkiE !ei5A1FPDuk
I recently got a Jobo film processing machine that uses suction to extract chemicals from reservoirs...the only thing I need to do is make sure the lids to the reservoirs are sealed so the suction can take place.

It's a fairly old machine, and I realized that after a couple of fucked-up rolls that I needed to replace the gaskets to the lids on those reservoirs. That "couple" of rolls happened to be some of my better shots from a concert. The machine cleaned the film real good...too bad it didn't see a drop of developer...
>> Anonymous
>>158729
Yes, the shots you didn't see because they are gone, are always the best.

I use a small compact for street photography, and didn't notice the batteries were empty.. (I rarely do look through the viewfinder.) Result: Complete empty role.
>> OPFOR !8vKpfCqy8A
While back when I worked as a photo lab tech, I had a customer swear up and down that we could develop a roll of Agfapan APX B&W film with the c-41 process. After telling him that it would destroy the film about 5 times and he just did not get it, I ran the roll to show him what would happen. I think he got the point :)