Bizarre development

Hi,

I gave a TMY 120 film to a new lab for development and some frames, after a bit of PS touch, came out like this. Is it possible they used some non-B&W developer? Thanks a lot.

 

The lab's scans or yours? T Max films are famous for needing longer fixing times most other B&W films and they will look purple/pink if they are under fixes.

The lab's scans or yours? T Max films are famous for needing longer fixing times most other B&W films and they will look purple/pink if they are under fixes.

 

Thanks for your response. The scan is the lab's.

The negatives are pink, which would normally make the positives green. But if it balances out the green, it could come out pink.

 

Scan, or convert, to monochrome. Kodak says that the pink should not cause problems.

My thicker negs scan a bit like that, too. What do the actual negatives look like? If the sky is extremely dark on the neg, it may just be a bit overexposed and the scanner is struggling to get enough light through it.

Nice piece of artwork! Only the saturation slider in PS "Hue and Saturation" was used, taking it to 100%, to make it look like this. Nothing else was done to it except to resize the image. At a guess, I'd say the lab forgot to click on "Greyscale" and instead it was left on RBG. I've made the same mistake a few times at home

 

 

 

On one scanner that I have, I found that I can select "color" or "B&W" after the scan, and it converts appropriately.

 

On the other hand, scratch removal (sometimes called digital ICE) must be selected, or not, before scanning.

(And it completely messes up with silver containing film.)