On 27 Oct 1998 03:51:54 GMT, "Michael Leonard" wrote:

>I just got a roll of ASA 100 slide film back from Fuji labs and apparantly
>their chemicals were not fresh .. the whole roll seems to have a brick
>reddish cast in the shadows and dark areas which should be black.

This is most likely not a chemical problem...
Fuji, in all its infinite wisdom, decided to locate its only
E-6 lab in the US in, yes, folks, sunny, H - O - T
Phoenix, Ari(d)zona...!!! I have had film ruined by heat
also, when sent there, so I now send slide film to Fuji
only during times of reasonably cool weather there...