I’ve been scanning my old negatives with my camera (Sony A7R III and a Canon 100 Macro lens with a 35mm film carrier). I’ve noticed that some of the negatives come out looking very faded, with nothing to compare them to, I don’t know if it’s a problem with my technique or because they’re old (some of them are 40+ years old and kept in poor conditions).
I recently found a roll of negatives taken by a very cheap waterproof disposable camera from 2014. Apparently, I also had the negatives developed & scanned at Walgreens at the time.
The color/contrast different between my camera scans and what Walgreens gave is quite stark. Is this because the negatives have degraded in the intervening 10 years? Or because there’s something wrong with my technique?
I realize I can probably do a better job if I manually edited it with curves in PS to eliminate some of the color casts, but that’s going to take way too long, and I have 1000s of negatives to process
So if there’s any way I can systematically improve my technique, that’d be the easiest way
Here’s the link the raw file from my camera (scan) if anyone is interested: https://1drv.ms/i/c/499d6900d1cab18c/EbRaKUUkM3xChbamyKhKf1wBlXU8JjNto6aUJ6QWPWVMVw?e=YwTicq
2014 Walgreens Scan: