Color balance – Ektachrome film

I just shot my first roll of 6×7 film (Ektachrome 200) and because it was

my daughter’s wedding I wanted it back in a hurry, so I took it to a local place and they sent it out to their lab (got it back in two days). I’m

that this lab isn’t accustomed to doing 6 x7 film and the color balance

way off! I scanned the film and I was able to fix the color balance very easily in Photoshop by using the "Auto Color" adjustment, but my question is: isn’t the film processing pretty straight forward for transparency film? I can understand how color balance could easily be off with

film because of the need to add the correct filtration for printing the negatives, but with transparency film it should be a pretty

process, with no filtration variables involved. Any thoughts on this? I don’t think I’ll take my film there anymore 🙂

I’m sure
that this lab isn’t accustomed to doing 6 x7 film and the color balance

way off! I scanned the film and I was able to fix the color balance very easily in Photoshop by using the "Auto Color" adjustment, but my question is: isn’t the film processing pretty straight forward for transparency film?

Hello,

I just shot my first roll of 6×7 film (Ektachrome 200) and because it was of my daughter’s wedding I wanted it back in a hurry, so I took it to a local place and they sent it out to their lab (got it back in two days). I’m sure that this lab isn’t accustomed to doing 6 x7 film and the color balance was way off! I scanned the film and I was able to fix the color balance very easily in Photoshop by using the "Auto Color" adjustment, but my question is: isn’t the film processing pretty straight forward for transparency film? I can understand how color balance could easily be off with negative film because of the need to add the correct filtration for printing the negatives, but with transparency film it should be a pretty straight-forward process, with no filtration variables involved. Any thoughts on this? I don’t think I’ll take my film there anymore 🙂

Thanks!

Hello,

I just shot my first roll of 6×7 film (Ektachrome 200) and because it was of my daughter’s wedding I wanted it back in a hurry, so I took it to a local place and they sent it out to their lab (got it back in two days). I’m sure that this lab isn’t accustomed to doing 6 x7 film and the color balance was way off! I scanned the film and I was able to fix the color balance very easily in Photoshop by using the "Auto Color" adjustment, but my question is: isn’t the film processing pretty straight forward for transparency film? I can understand how color balance could easily be off with negative film because of the need to add the correct filtration for printing the negatives, but with transparency film it should be a pretty straight-forward process, with no filtration variables involved. Any thoughts on this? I don’t think I’ll take my film there anymore 🙂

Thanks!

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is: isn’t the film processing pretty straight forward for transparency film? I can understand how color balance could easily be off with

film because of the need to add the correct filtration for printing the negatives, but with transparency film it should be a pretty

process, with no filtration variables involved. Any thoughts on this? snip<

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but my question

is: isn’t the film processing pretty straight forward for transparency film? I can understand how color balance could easily be off with

negative

film because of the need to add the correct filtration for printing the negatives, but with transparency film it should be a pretty

straight-forward

process, with no filtration variables involved. Any thoughts on this? snip<

E6 requires much more exactitude in both exposing and processing. As R.Feinman said you need to run clips,or a roll for your format, before you dip a whole production.
So many things can go wrong: mechanical failure, bad emulsion, sloppy lab and even Champagne saturated photographers.

Stephan