Color Issues within Lightroom CC

[nate]

@accidental_capture

So from what I gather from you response about masking, you mean blacking out all areas of the lightbox that are not being used to illuminate the negative? This would eliminate any spill light onto my cameras sensor that could be affecting the scan?

Yep, you got it!

@accidental_capture

My light source is a light table

Just be aware that all light tables are not equal when it comes to color reproduction. See this post:

Suggested backlight sources for scanning film with DSLR

Nate Weatherly posted a pretty thorough reply to a post on Facebook with generic recommendations for light sources that would work better than LED plates such as tracing panels etc. I know @Richard1Karash has done a pretty detailed comparison of different light sources as well. Perhaps it would be a good idea to make a separate thread with information about specific products that are known to work well for various setups (vertical “copystand” type setups, horizontal rails and bellows type setu…