Hi everyone..

just to tell my really bad experience processing my b&w work in a “good” reputation lab in NY.
LAst winter i went to NYC to shot a documentary feature and decide to get all my b&w negatives (ilford hp5, delta 100 and pan f plus with me to be develop on a good quality lab in this city.. after some questions I decide trust on BRIAN YOUNG with his lab PHOTOTECHNICA.
I give him plenty of time to do the job, around a couple of weeks, because I was full schedule and was not in NYC in that time.. After back to the city, and one day before the dead line, I’d call Brian to asking about my rolls.. The first reaction was to tell me that he didn’t do the job by the time, but if I call again the day after he could have all done.
I called the next day, but by my surprise he asking me if my light meter was working bad, because some rolls was underexposed.
Long story short, when I went to his lab in Long Island City and I’d check my negatives, all the PAN F PLUS, had almost no images on them, no because an underexposed frames, but because under develop rolls.. The control strips in the negatives have almost no density.. He couldn’t give any reason . but I assume that he in the rush, put all the rolls in the same can and develop with the same time..

Nothing to do .. nothing in my negatives… NO reputation, no ICP teaching experience, no laboratory apparent quality matters..

Brian Young from PHOTOTECHNICA, put in the trash can the work of 6 months ..

After that, He told me that the only thing to do is share the cost of develop.. the bad ones.. nothing else.. I paid.. and leave the place.. I’m still trying to remember the frames that I’d shot..

Please DON’T TRUST IN PHOTOTECHNICA EVEN BRIAN YOUNG