wolfmark
Hello, fellow analogue enthusiasts,
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As I mainly shoot in black and white, I don’t know much about colour. Here’s the problem:
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I was out and about in Normandy recently with my Hasselblad. As I still had a few rolls of Fuji 400H (expired four years ago) in a drawer, I took them with me and photographed a few postcard-worthy scenes. I then had them developed at CEWE and scanned here at a local service provider using an Epson V700. To my great delight, all the pictures are completely blue. Is this down to the expired film, or did something go wrong during development or scanning?
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Thanks for your thoughts!
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Regards,
Markus
Magirus
Hello
After having problems with several expired colour films,
I threw them all away.
They ranged from 110 to medium format.
The films were 10 years past their expiry date and hadn’t been stored in a cool place.
Regards, Ben
michael-kielgmxnet
Hello,
There could be several reasons for this:
1. Incorrect colour management during scanning, i.e. the orange masking may not have been filtered out properly.
2. Problems during development (which is actually almost impossible at a large-scale lab like CEWE).
3. Colour cast caused by overlapping – this is possible, but after four years it shouldn’t be that noticeable.
To narrow it down: what do the negatives look like? If the scans have a blue cast, the negatives should have an orange cast. However, if the negatives look normal, something probably went wrong during scanning.
I’d suggest having a few prints made as a test to see if they have the same blue cast, or – if possible – having them scanned again by a different provider.
