Newbie At Develpoping question

[cosmonaut]

I have developed three rolls of film. Ilford 125, Tmax100 and Tmax400 all came out great. But the scans from WalMart and Walgreens come back with a Sepia tone. Another lab told me that they are not calibrating there scanner. Is this true. I am looking to buy a scanner. But is the sepia tone suppose to be there?
Cosmo

 

[thebard37]

MY guess ...

MY guess ...

. . .is that they are scanning the images in as color negatives and not as black and white negatives. That is why you see the color cast.

 

[Pherdinand]

nope.
The films are black and white. Anything else is a failure of the operator. Or an artistic moment of him.

 

[tedwhite]

All of the above. You should either get a good film scanner OR a darkroom with a good enlarger - some very good ones are quite cheap these days. For example, I got a Beseler 4X5 with 3 lenses recently for $125.

Much smaller and much easier to use is a Simmons/Omega B22XL. "XL" for extra long shaft, so you can make 16X20's if you want to. If it doesn't come with lenses look for Rodenstocks or Nikkors.

Ted

 

[cosmonaut]

All of the above. You should either get a good film scanner OR a darkroom with a good enlarger - some very good ones are quite cheap these days. For example, I got a Beseler 4X5 with 3 lenses recently for $125.

Much smaller and much easier to use is a Simmons/Omega B22XL. "XL" for extra long shaft, so you can make 16X20's if you want to. If it doesn't come with lenses look for Rodenstocks or Nikkors.

Ted

Thanks for the info. I bought a Vivitar with a 50mm lens at a yard sale for hree bucks.LOL

 

[alcaraban]

nope.
The films are black and white. Anything else is a failure of the operator.

But if the operator is "compensating" the non-existent orange mask typical in the c41 negatives, the result is an "Orange and White" (rather than Black and White) image, isn't it?

 

[Pherdinand]

It is orange and dark orange, yes. And it is the fault of the operator as I said.

 

[cosmonaut]

But if the operator is "compensating" the non-existent orange mask typical in the c41 negatives, the result is an "Orange and White" (rather than Black and White) image, isn't it?

Yes an orange, sepia tone, maybe a bit more yellow here. This is a classic example. While it can be removed in PPing I still don't like it......

 

[tedwhite]

I suspect, also, that if you put the neg in an enlarger and projected the image onto a sheet of b/w enlarging paper you would get rid of the color cast.

I don't use 400cn for that very reason.

Ted