Question about my process film. C41.

Hi, I went to my Kodak Q Lab pro lab and got my film developed. Looks like xray

didn't affect it when they threw my cam bag into cargo at a flight from Paris to

London!

 

Ok, first up. Why are some of my images the usual dark orange/brown color and

some photo's a more bluer color? I asked my lab and he said the colors are more

warmer and it is fine. The bluer photo's are at the top left compared to the

rest of the strip.<div></div>

I only had like one or two rolls of film of that bluer color they were all from the same scene I think, so it could be the colors. The equipment used was just the film, Nikon F100 with 18-35 lens and no flash, neg film shot mostly on aperture priority mode at 3D matrix metering at auto DX ASA.

 

Here is another one. All my rolls came back without any problem but on one of my rolls, Kodak VC 160. I note that on my trip I was trying out diff film so shot a couple of rolls and each roll was a different emulsion. Anyway. This roll Kodak VC 160 had streaks marks near the last last 6 frames, the last one and the other was the 4th last one or abouts. Do you know what is this?<div></div>

This is the 4th last frame of the same roll, it has vertical streaks almost between the two frames but it is within one of the frame. I asked my lab and he said its hard to tell before printed and he says its not on the rim of the film so its not a processing error and he says its almost like if there was something in front of the camera but its not. Do you think what it is? Of all my 8 rolls of film only this one had streaks.<div></div>

That streaking looks to me like the neg sleeve, show me a picture of the 'naked' film without

the sleeve.

The shot of the Arch is bluer because it was taken at night under floodlight (which is yellow

compared to the daylight balance of the film)

Also if you scan or show a print here, you will see the blue streaks are Car/Lorry headlights

Mark

'he says its almost like if there was something in front of the camera'

 

that's what it looks like to me...

The blue cast you see when looking at the negative is simple. It is caused by the fact that you are/were using daylight balanced film, and the light source for those frames was a much warmer light source (incandescent, tungsten, mercury vapor, etc.) Since the light source illuminating the subject was VERY yellow compared to daylight, and since you are viewing a NEGATIVE, the yellow cast shows as blue on the film.

 

A more normal balance light will show as a more brown color in the developed negatives, due primarily to the film base, and the actual colors in the scene as shot - like the adjacent frames.

 

There is nothing at all wrong with your film, and when printed, the original yellow cast from the artificial light can be preserved, or if you desire, a good lab operator can take most of the color cast out.

 

-Dave

Thanks guys.