Agfa Scala: it came with warm cast, is it normal?

[teo]

Hello,
this is my firs post, so pleased to meet everyone. I'm from Italy, joined after some lurking at the gallery and the mood of the forum.
I had a roll of Agfa Scala processed by the (only) lab in Italy. It wasn't so pricey as I tought. 🙂
Gray gamut is spectacular, but I have a question: slides color is warm grey, is it normal, or the lab applied some (unasked) processing?

You can look at the photos in my gallery (teo), I scanned in RGB to show issue.

(ps: while you're at it, tell me what do you think of them, be very honest, I'm here to learn...)

bye

 

[SolaresLarrave]

I used Scala for years as my only way to do B&W, and, to be quite honest, at times my slides had a rather cool cast on them. I don't think it's too much of a problem (haven't checked yours out). If you project them, they'll look monochrome, and if you scan them, just desaturate them or turn them into grayscale and that should do it. In fact, if you can scan them as grayscale, your files will be smaller because they won't carry any color profile.

In other words, I wouldn't worry.

 

[teo]

Well, when I project them the look warm gray, however people seemed to like it, so it's not a big issue.
I'll ask, however, the lab why they are warm, since you had the opposite effect...

bye

 

[rxmd]

Is the lab actually using the original Scala process or some other BW reversal process? The Scala process appears to be a high temperature process that needs special chemicals, and I'm not sure to what degree they are still available from Agfa and their successors. Maybe they are just running the film through a nother reversal process that leaves a warmish tint.

In theory you could tone your film. I've never tried that, though.

Philipp

 

[teo]

Next week I'll ask what process they use, thanks.

For tone you mean? (sorry, I'm a noob for chemical develop...)