Film development came back with damages

[Dito4ever]

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For a few months now, I've been shooting analog again (after over 30 years).

I'm a bit frustrated with film development. My introduction to analog photography began with a vacation and about 10 different exposed films.

The negatives and slides came out of the development process quite scratched. Scans were horrible. I even got my money partially back.

Now, on another trip, I shot 11 slides. I got them developed yesterday. At first glance, 8 films looked fine (Kodak Ektachrome). Three films (either coincidentally or not, Fuji Velvia) had damages on the back. It looks like stone chips on a car. Plus some scratches. (See the pictures: photo of the slide projection and the slide itself).

Do you know how/where this damages occurred?

I can only imagine the development process as the cause. I had the development done at a reputable lab.

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[oldwino]

While I can find emulsion defects on every roll of film I have shot (if you look hard enough), these do seem to be excessive.

I would speak with the lab about it, in a friendly tone, and see what they say. It might lead to them finding a fault in their system. 

[250swb]

They do look (maybe) like stress marks where the film has been passed over a roller with some grit (more like a rocks) embedded on it. But unless you've rotated the images yourself the scratch in the close up photo seems to be on a diagonal track, which a machine made scratch can't  do? So see if you can find a matching or very similar  pattern of 'dots' in other negatives further along the film which would then point to a development problem given the repeatability of them.

[DenverSteve]

In almost 50 years of professional photography, using professional labs for processing and doing my own as well (including teaching university and graduate photography) I've never seen that type of anomaly with processed film.  This looks like very old Ektachrome that was exposed and left in an old camera for possibly decades.  Ektachrome hasn't been made for well over 10 years so did you purchase a batch of old Ekta or did you find this in an old camera you purchased?  If the old film wasn't climate controlled and you don't know the history of the film stock, it could be from years of mishandling (just sitting around in the heat and humidity) not processing.  

Edited October 17 by DenverSteve

[Dito4ever]

It’s the actual E100 Ektachrome. Expire Date in 1,5 Years. Not the Kodachrome. Got it just before travelling

Now I found also these things at 2 velvia. So half of films 👎🏼. Half 👍🏼. Strange.

[Bliz]

5 hours ago, DenverSteve said:

5 hours ago, DenverSteve said:

Ektachrome hasn't been made for well over 10 years

 

Not really.

Edited October 17 by Bliz