my girlfriend accidentally washed and dried (she told me to be sure to tell y'all it was on gentle cycle) a roll of APS film from her elph. is there any chance that anything is left on the film, or will the wash-n-dry have totally destroyed it? i'm thinking the alkalinity of the detergent would have destroyed the images.

thanks.

-- brad daly (bwdaly@scott.net), January 30, 2000

Answers

If nothing else got them, the process of being washed and then dried will probably have stuck the negatives together. But I'm betting the temperature variations and detergent got them first.

-- shawn gibson (SeeInsideForever@yahoo.com), January 30, 2000.

They might be processable (with interesting results), but possibly not by a machine. Talk to your lab about it. There is a chance of your film messing up their machine, and they wouldn't thank you.

-- Alan Gibson (Alan.Gibson@technologist.com), January 30, 2000.

I've read in a photo magazines a couple of times that people had washed 135-film in the washing mashine by mistake, but the pictures came out right. There were no problems with the developing. Seems that no water came in in the casette.

Try to have the film developed as usual. It can be okay. I don't think it can be developed manually? Must be very expensive in that case.

-- Tob (tobias999@hotmail.com), January 30, 2000.

thanks for the advice, everyone. i doubt anyone around here can manually process the negatives, as someone suggested. APS is so heavily designed for machine processing that i wonder if the right size reels even exist. i think we'll just take 'em to fascist mart and see if anything turns out.

-- brad daly (bwdaly@scott.net), January 30, 2000.