- Location
- Melbourne, Australia
Some of you may have seen the snow photos I posted recently. Those photos were taken with a digital camera. That day, I also took a roll of film with my Xpan. A couple of months ago, I also took some photos with my Xpan, colour C41 roll, at a park.
I decided to send those two rolls of Xpan films (labelled one C41 colour roll and one HP5 B&W roll) to a reputable, specialist film photography lab in my city to be developed and scanned.
They sent me a bill for two B&W rolls (B&W development is apparently more expensive). I called and tried to explain that one of them is a colour roll. They said I labelled them as B&W Xpan (implying that they thought Xpan was some kind of B&W film, and implying I labelled them both as such). I said yes I did label one of the rolls as B&W Xpan. I explained that Xpan is the name of the camera, it takes panorama shots on 35mm film, and that roll was HP5 B&W. The other was also from the same Xpan camera but it was C41 colour film. That was when they realised their mistake.
A couple of weeks later, I received the film and digital scans.
I think the B&W scans looked ok. But the colour scans look over-saturated and/or overblown and/or underexposed.
Is it the Xpan overexposing the colour shots or is this part of the scanning process? I know that B&W is more forgiving but ... I'm not sure.
Here are some examples of the B&W snow shots and the colour park shots.
I decided to send those two rolls of Xpan films (labelled one C41 colour roll and one HP5 B&W roll) to a reputable, specialist film photography lab in my city to be developed and scanned.
They sent me a bill for two B&W rolls (B&W development is apparently more expensive). I called and tried to explain that one of them is a colour roll. They said I labelled them as B&W Xpan (implying that they thought Xpan was some kind of B&W film, and implying I labelled them both as such). I said yes I did label one of the rolls as B&W Xpan. I explained that Xpan is the name of the camera, it takes panorama shots on 35mm film, and that roll was HP5 B&W. The other was also from the same Xpan camera but it was C41 colour film. That was when they realised their mistake.
A couple of weeks later, I received the film and digital scans.
I think the B&W scans looked ok. But the colour scans look over-saturated and/or overblown and/or underexposed.
Is it the Xpan overexposing the colour shots or is this part of the scanning process? I know that B&W is more forgiving but ... I'm not sure.
Here are some examples of the B&W snow shots and the colour park shots.