The Trouble with Scanning Redscale Film

portrait
#2692. Lomography Lobster Redscale 200, Kodak Ektralite 500. Unicolor C-41 Powder Kit, 3:30 min @ 39 °C.
The trouble with scanning redscale film is that the scanning software will try to correct for the red and yellow color cast in the images. The resulting images are often washed out and grainy and require manual correction to get the expected redscale look. I use VueScan and Negative Lab Pro to scan and convert my negatives. Unfortunately, neither of them is optimized for redscale film. While each image is different, more often than not, I found that using the ‘Linear – Flat’ tone profile in NLP gave me the best results.


portrait
#2693. Lomography Lobster Redscale 200, Kodak Ektralite 500. Unicolor C-41 Powder Kit, 3:30 min @ 39 °C.

pond & reeds
#2694. Lomography Lobster Redscale 200, Kodak Ektralite 500. Unicolor C-41 Powder Kit, 3:30 min @ 39 °C.

Union Cemetery
#2695. Lomography Lobster Redscale 200, Kodak Ektralite 500. Unicolor C-41 Powder Kit, 3:30 min @ 39 °C.

portrait
#2696. Lomography Lobster Redscale 200, Kodak Ektralite 500. Unicolor C-41 Powder Kit, 3:30 min @ 39 °C.

Environmental Education Centre, Ralph Klein Park
#2697. Lomography Lobster Redscale 200, Kodak Ektralite 500. Unicolor C-41 Powder Kit, 3:30 min @ 39 °C.

guitar hero
#2698. Lomography Lobster Redscale 200, Kodak Ektralite 500. Unicolor C-41 Powder Kit, 3:30 min @ 39 °C.

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