[filmscanners] Minolta Scan Dual II scanning problem

["Berry Ives" <yvesberia@earthlink.net>]

This is a very weird problem:  I have a strip of 4 negs, 3 of which scan to
produce a normal color balance.  The fourth, which is of course the best
shot, is skewed dramatically towards blue-green.

The image, as printed at the photo lab, is fine; it is almost entirely
rust/orange (seedheads) and has a cream/light brown/tan out of focus
background.  I'd say the photo lab print is almost monochromatic in the
orange/brown spectrum.  Yet, as scanned, it is all blue-green hues and not a
trace of the original color.

The weird thing is that the negative looks similar to the others on the
strip, with the normal orange base of negative film.  I can't see anything
odd about the appearance of the negative.  I have repeated the scan several
times, reversing the direction of the film strip, flipping it wrong side up,
manually focusing the scan.  Always the same result.

Has anyone experienced anything like this?  Any ideas?

I could send a jpeg to anyone who might care to look at the scan result,
although I can't send a scan of the lab print since I haven't a flatbed
scanner.  I don't know what the policy of the listserve is regarding
attachments, but I can send it off list.

Berry



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