Any idea where this yellow tint came from?

[Corran]

Let us know, I'm curious if I'm right. I used to use North Coast, until I started developing color film myself. I had one batch of E-6 come back with black crud all over the slides. I've since found out this happens with older, well-used chemistry. It was one batch out of a couple dozen so that's not an indictment of North Coast, but I'd rather have only myself to blame for screwing things up personally. I also used Praus Productions some which I think was better overall.

 

[Huss]

Will do, thanks for the tip.

Changing it to B&W fixes all!
😉

I need to order mattes for the gallery, so need to decide whether I'll be showing film strips or not for commercial use. I'm leaning away from doing it, as while the sprockets are cool they can be distracting. Which means I'll be using NCPS as they scan using holders that do not show the sprockets, while thefindlab scans individually for pano film, showing sprockets.

 

[BillBingham2]

Avoids the problem, doesn't fix it.

I want to say perhaps someone put the lens back together wrong and there's a light leak n the barrel. I'm wondering about a reflection, are there baffles in the body missing?

It doesn't look like a leak the way you might find in a bellows.

Don't know anything about the camera, but it just feels like a reflection.

B2(;->

 

[Kamph]

If the tint seems especially strong around the sprocket holes it might indicate that the developer was too warm during development.

 

[BillBingham2]

I don't think it's from the developer. It's on the bottom too, take a look at the first picture. I could be very wrong as I'm the last one in the world to say if a color picture is balanced right.

B2 (;->

 

[znapper]

Not sure if it applies, but in my case it was a combination of overdeveloped and scanning.

Different effects from different scanners...?
http://rangefinderforum.com/forums/showthread.php?t=154498

 

[Huss]

We have a winner, and it is Corran!!!

Thefindlab.com wrote back to me today:

"Thank you so much for being patient with us while we took time to look at your negs.

The yellow tint you see is indeed from the scanner leaking light through the sprocket holes as it's being scanned. This happened because we scanned your rolls on the Frontier so you could see the sprocket holes in the scans. When we do this we are actually scanning your pano frame on a 6x7 mask since this the only way to do it.

When we pulled your negatives I had one roll rescanned on the Noritsu. This doesn't allow for the sprocket holes to show up, but it does give you a cleaner scan since it is more light tight. I've included a frame for an example

We're more than happy to have these rolls rescanned for you on the Noritsu, if you like. Just let us know if that's your request. Thanks Huss!"

I am so happy w them that I sent in more film today. Excellent service and great prices. And thank you Corran, for in my email to them I mentioned the light leak through the sprockets as a possibility. I'm sure that made them look for it.

The sample they sent me looks great. Here it is, unedited (I will adjust once they send me the full rez uncropped scans)

 

[mpaniagua]

Nicely done Corran 🙂

 

[BillBingham2]

Very impressive.

B2 (;->

 

[Corran]

Cool, glad to know it's resolved (and not a permanent issue!).

 

[charjohncarter]

Very good Corran, I do my own scanning but your information is valuable.

 

[Huss]

Another shot from the rescanned roll. No yellow tint. Waay expired Fuji NPS160. Still looks great. Man I wish they still made this film, so I can buy it expired 20 years from now..
😉

 

[FujiLove]

Great to hear you got this sorted. It was annoying me!

 

[Huss]

This image was shot with a Horizon U500 pano, but also developed/scanned by thefindlab.
Different film - Fuji C200 - no yellowing. Also could have been a different person scanning it.

Great to hear you got this sorted. It was annoying me!

Yeah, me too! And (thanks to Corran pointing this out) when I look back at other pano images that I have that I thought were ok (as I thought above), I can see the yellow shading in them when I look closely. And even shadowing next to the sprocket holes.
So I'm done with going for that look!