Some film photos turned out green, why is this?

[BozoBuster]

You didn't say where you made your wide angle shots. Indoors, outdoors? If you shoot indoors under fluorescent light (or outdoors under certain types street lights) without any correction filtration, you'll get green tinting.

It wasn't clear if the good shots and the bad shots were all on the same roll. If they were all on the same roll, it sounds like a lighting problem. It's highly unlikely that the lens would cause anything like that. Old film might, but it would have to be AWFULLY old and the whole roll would be affected, not just certain shots.

Did you look at the negs? Can you see if there's a difference in the appearance between the green and normal shots? Could be the lab worker screwed up printing some of the shots.

Good luck.

 

[spn_maz]

Not long ago I processed/printed some film at a photo lab- they all turned out great except for the shots that I used a wide-angle lense for, which turned out green. The camera I was using is pretty old, could it have something to do with age of the lens?

 

[JT C]

It's not likely the lens. How old was the film you were using? An overall green cast is indicative of old or heat-damaged film, because the magenta (opposite of green) dyes are the most perishable.

It might also be your lab. Printing is a separate operation, and if the operator is just someone hired to do a job they might not have known how to do the best job. I fear this is typical of drugstore labs, where they figure the machine is smarter and more accuate than the operators.

Take the negatives and prints back, show them to the lab manager, and ask for remakes. I used to have to do this all the time until I got my lab people trained to print my prints the way I wanted them.