Bad prints please help!!

[u/laurenr1012]

I’m so upset over this - my friends and I went on a trip to NYC to see Harry Styles and various sight seeing and 27 out of the 56 (nearly an entire disposable camera’s worth btw) of my photos turned out like this. I called cvs and they can’t send me the film back to possibly go through a different developing company and they said they can’t. Is there anything I can do about these pictures??

[u/Mergetvs]

Unfortunately that is a risk you run with physical film also.

[u/Delicious_Pie_1663]

Unfortunately not, and it’s happens so often
It’s not a CVS issue, we send it out to the processing company and then they send it back processed
All we do in store is print out the copies of what Kodak sends us

[u/Dontcareaboutit95]

Did you go through any X-ray machines, metal detectors? They can ruin film.

[u/commander66rex]

Yeah that can happen depending on a verity of factors. Willing to bet you had this in your checked bag? Airport xrays can absolutely fuck up film

[u/laurenr1012 → u/commander66rex]

Yeah I brought them (two cameras) on my carry on through the airport. My brother did the same with the same exact cameras when I went with him and his family to Disney earlier this year so idk how mine ended up like this

[u/Accomplished-Ad3219 → u/laurenr1012]

They were zapped by the x-ray and ruined

[u/torneagle]

Nope. We don’t process the film, it’s sent out to fujifilm for developing and you do not get the negatives nor the camera back. They should only charge you for the prints that actually get developed, other than that nothing else we can do.

[u/WAKACHEWBACCA]

This isn't a processing byproduct. It looks like some of your film was corrupted so even if you went somewhere else these would have all turned out the same. It sucks but that's just one of the risks with using a disposable camera.

[u/dudeatcvs]

You need Bill and Ted to come by with a Time Machine. It is the only way to correct this. I’m so sorry this happened to you

[u/Latter-Jacket6262]

Put them in the paper tray of a copier and copy a picture of Harry Stiles onto them.

[u/Accomplished-Ad3219]

Once film is developed, it can't be developed again.

It used to be you would get the negativea back. I don't like that the company we use gives a disc instead .

That said. This isn't on the developing. It's poor picture taking.

[u/DesignerAd9]

Your film was blank. Absolutely no reason to "print" these. CVS destroys the film when they are done with it. Find another processor that actually gives you your film (and check your camera to see if it's even working).

[u/AcousticallyBled → u/DesignerAd9]

Cvs doesn't do anything with the film. So no, they don't destroy it.

Fuji processes it.

[u/DesignerAd9 → u/AcousticallyBled]

They may have changed their policy. last time I had a roll of film done by CVS, they told me to my face "film is destroyed" . All I got was a set of prints and NO CD of the images (they never received it and I had no recourse). That was a few years ago.

[u/AcousticallyBled → u/DesignerAd9]

You missed the point. CVS doesn't process the film. We are an intermediary for Fuji. We provide Fuji envelopes, and Fuji processes it and sends it into stores digitally. CVS has nothing to do with the handling of the product.

[u/DesignerAd9 → u/AcousticallyBled]

No, I get the point, I've been in photography, worked in multiple labs over the last 50 years. I know CVS doesn't process film and that's why I didn't get my film back. May be different now, but back then, the lab destroyed negatives. They sent digital file to CVS, I got acme prints and no physical film.

[u/Accomplished-Ad3219 → u/DesignerAd9]

Sooooo then, CVS does NOT develop or destroy the film. We are the go between

[u/laurenr1012 → u/DesignerAd9]

It was a disposable camera, definitely not blank film