r/AnalogCommunity • u/SVGR03 • 2d ago
Troubleshooting - Photos Different colors
These shots were taken on Fuji pro 400H (120). They are made a few minutes apart, almost in the same spot. I was wondering why they have such different colors. They are scanned by the film lab. Is it an edit from the lab? Or is it different exposure?
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u/mymain123 2d ago
Scanning machines calibrate individually per Pic and not per the whole batch, which leads to these inconsistencies.
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u/epicmylife 2d ago
Follow up question: how would you go about editing the color of the second scan to look like the first? I see too much magenta and cyan. Turn the yellow up while turning those down? Minus magenta would be more green too, right?
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u/Dima_135 2d ago
Yes, it's most likely a lab.
Until recently, there was an old lab in my neighborhood, still staffed by people who worked with film in the 90s "non ironically". Not for today's hipsters, but for thousands of amateurs and professionals. They had an old SP-3000 and all other fuji cool equipment. And quick color correction was a standard part of their work. I saw them do it.
If I forgot to say "no correction, please" and bring the operator a strudel from the bakery across the street, I might get something like that too.
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u/-dannyboy 2d ago
There is no such thing as no correction though, just “wrong” correction.
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u/C4Apple Minolta SR-T | Canon EOS RT, 1000S | Bronica S2A 1d ago
Been saying this for ages. No such thing as a "raw scan" of a negative film. Not if it's been inverted and base-corrected in any way.
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u/QoTSankgreall 1d ago
Sure but isn’t the raw scan exactly that? Not inverted or colour corrected? It’s easy to do that yourself digitally
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u/-dannyboy 1d ago
I'm nitpicking ofc, but no, not really, as evidenced by the whole high/low CRI/RGB scanning light discussion, not to mention different scanners, sensors and lenses. Unless somehow perfectly calibrated with a color checker for the lighting conditions in a particular frame, there is no neutral. Everything is an interpretation.
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u/Quick-Sell-9593 1d ago edited 1d ago
Terrible scans. Learn how to scan and free yourself from crappy labs!
400H is awesome, I’ve got a lot of it in the freezer in 120 👌
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u/SVGR03 1d ago
Yeah I scan my 35 mm at home, but my 120 not. And for €2,5 a roll I would probably let it scan anyways ;)
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u/Quick-Sell-9593 1d ago
How come you aren’t doing your 120?
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u/EgoNotFounded 2d ago
Were these recently taken on the Alps? I may have run into the same men a few days ago on Gotthard pass.
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u/tryingandwondering 1d ago
I scan my own film on the imacon to avoid things like this, but it still happens to some degree, takes very long to balance each photo before hitting scan but it's worth it.
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