Mysterious Red Tint

[SoSideways]

Hello all!

I just took 2 rolls of film, which were brand new, non-expired Fuji X-tra 400 film, and had them developed at a local CVS. Both rolls were dropped off at the same exact CVS, with the only difference being one was developed on Saturday, and one was developed Monday night.

One of those rolls of film was finished within 15 minutes of buying that pack of 2 pack of film, while the other roll took a couple of days to finish.

Back stories aside, here's what my problem is.

On the second roll, which I had developed earlier tonight, I discovered that most of the pictures had a sort of red tint to everything, although there were a couple of pictures in that roll that didn't seem to have that exaggerated red tint.

I tried to scan it with the scanner, but the red tint doesn't show up like it does in real life, but instead look a little faded like they were good quality scans of pictures from the 80s.

Here are some of the pictures in question:

If someone could give me an insight as to why there is more red than there should be, that would be great.

Thanks!

 

[Anscojohn]

Might have been contamination of chemistry. Might have been heat damage to film. Might have been "the magenta lady." The latter is a term we gave to the cause of those pinkish casts which often showed up in neutral areas of the image--like sand, sidewalk grey. Take them back to the drugstore and ask to have them reprinted.

 

[Removed Account]

If it just shows up in the drug store prints and not the scans it is probably just that the lab tech did a shoddy printing job on them. Do the negs look unusually greenish to you compared to a "good" set? In my job at a drugstore lab I find that I often have to fight my own tendency to over-correct green tinges to the point of making things pink. I also often mistake cyan for green, again leading to a pinky colour.

 

[SoSideways]

Awesome suggestions.

I shall go back to the drug store and ask them to reprint those pictures, and at the same time telling them not to over correct for the prints.

BTW, the scans are of the actual prints I got from the drug store, not scans of the negatives. My scanner does not have a slot for scanning negatives (hope to fix this soon with a new scanner), so the only way I could scan these photos onto the computer was to scan the actual photos themselves.

 

[SoSideways]

I am happy to report that it would seem that the red tint indeed lies in the print, and not the film, because so far most of my prints from the drug stores have come back with a red tint on them, even with B&W film!

I dropped off a roll of Kodak BW400CN last night at a different drug store, and low and behold, some of the prints actually had red ink blotched on there. I denied the prints and made them reprint them, and they finally came out, but most of the prints had some red tint to it.

I also dropped off a couple of rolls of film at a different store... it was actually a pro shop that used to develop and print film as well, but they no longer do that themselves and instead send it out. Those prints that I got were spot on with the colors and look rather good for over expiration date film!

Once I find the correct AC adapter for the scanner, which has film scanning capabilities, I will scan the negatives and upload them.

Thanks again guys!