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Honestly, can’t really leverage your employer’s purchasing on 3 damaged rolls - that is to say, would your employer actually go elsewhere because of this unrelated problem?
Most places have a pretty regular disclaimer about rolls damaged in development are only covered up to the value of the film. Not ideal, but the reality. Getting them to cover the cost of the films and maybe see about a voucher/some free developing in the future seems reasonable. Unless you’re paying for a professional development service, I’m not sure you’ve got much clout in this situation.
Edit, and to clarify, I know this is an absolutely heartbreaking situation- one that all film shooters worry about.
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Also, if it were me I'd still want those films back. If they didn't put them through the rest of the process (stop, fix) they'll be pretty useless now but if they were overdeveloped, even by a lot, it's often possible to still salvage an image through scanning.
Wouldn't be 'good' but I dunno, if there were moments and portraits etc I'd still kinda want to see a murky overcooked version.
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Looking for a bit of advice on something. Just had a pretty grim phone call from the lab in the camera shop I use for developing. Dropped in three rolls of Ultramax 400 - 75% of the exposures are from a trip to the Dingle peninsula with friends last weekend and the rest are mostly portraits of friends.
The yarn I was spun on the phone was that a belt broke in one of the machines and all three of my rolls were left in the development tank for far too long and are completely destroyed (I don't know the ins and outs of the development process). They were apologetic on the phone as you might expect.
I said I'd go in to them tomorrow and sort it out - question is, beyond the cost of the film and the development cost which I will have refunded - I'm not sure what else I should ask for/ expect as consolation - a €50 euro voucher or similar? I was really invested in what was on the rolls which I will be saying to them (it genuinely would be different if the rolls were simply me faffing about and experimenting with things) but they don't know that.
I have a business which we have an account that has spent in the ballpark of €20k in videography gear with them in the last two years as well which has to be worth something too (with the video department - the guys who I'll be dealing with tomorrow don't know this, I reckon they think I'm a student in my early 20s).
Anyway - has anyone else had this happen to them before and if so how was it resolved? I'm not looking to rinse anyone but I am really, really gutted about the whole situation.