I don't get it, Tony (and don't have a clue about what you're saying about
the technical stuff). What's normal about prints with a pinkish cast? The
negs seem perfectly fine - my scans don't have a trace of pink (even using a
generic color negative setting for film type). I haven't played with them a
great deal but grain seems minimal, as the literature promises.
Norman Unsworth
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> [mailto:owner-filmscanners@halftone.co.uk]On Behalf Of Tony Sleep
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 9:49 PM
> To: filmscanners@halftone.co.uk
> Subject: RE: filmscanners: Grain, Noise, et al
>
>
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2001 09:02:21 -0400 Norman Unsworth
> (unsworth_norman@aclink.org) wrote:
>
> > Interestingly, I just shot 2 rolls of Kodak T400CN for a local
> > newspaper. I
> > used Kodak mailers and when I got the pics & negs back, all the
> pics had
> > a
> > pink cast
>
> This is normal and correct with TMax400CN, an anti-halation dye.
> It occurs
> with the non-chromagenic TMax films too, but is largely removed by fixing
> and washing. It seems not to affect printing characteristics even on
> multigrade bromide (whose contrast is determined by the proportion of
> blue/green light). TMax400CN is lovely stuff, and scans beautifully IME.
>
> Regards
>
> Tony Sleep
> - Online portfolio & exhibit; + film
> scanner info
> & comparisons
>
