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kamakany
9th May 2015, 04:21 PM
Hello:



Firstable sorry for my English. I’ve been scanning medium format during last year using a Braun fs120, but I’ve discovered that it has difficult scanning c-41 developed negatives. Not with all, ONLY scanning brown/orange negatives. So I have to get perfect c-41 process in order to getting RED negatives. I am using tetenal c-41 (following correctly all instructions, times, etc.).



Left: negatives developed in shop, right: my development.

http://i.imgur.com/vkQoTrHl.jpg



When the negative scanned is brown or orange when you see the finel image you can find red color over the darks places, and sometimes a blue soft filter over all the image. I found sometimes paralelles lines in the sky as you can see:

http://i.imgur.com/am9Ox3sl.jpg





Somebody know how to get this red color please? Perhaps using other chemicals?



Thank you very much.

Bob
13th May 2015, 09:45 PM
Hi.

We do not normally deal with negative scanning issues on this forum as we concentrate only on traditional, chemically produced prints, but this seems to be a development issue so I have enabled it and hopefully someone can help.

Unfortunately, I am not very familiar with C41 processing, having done very little myself. Also, to be honest, I'm not 100% sure what you are asking - sorry. Hopefully, someone more familiar with C41 will have some ideas.

Are you saying that shop processed negatives scan OK - but ones you develop yourself have a problem with missing red colour when scanned?

Cheers, Bob.