Hi all -
I've just got some film back from a new lab that I'm trying out. C41 (Ektar 100), brand new film. I've scanned the film on my Cezanne at 3200dpi and I'm getting some weird splotching. When I scan negatives I generally don't set the end points in the scanner software and leave the and inverting, colour correction etc in Photoshop. I've attached two files at 100% that show a sample from the film scan. The first is 'processed' - end points set and colour corrected, curves etc. The 2nd is the same area of film with just a basic invert and removing of the orange mask (I haven't spotted the scans as you can see). I've been relatively aggressive in darkening this areas of film (the sky) in processing which has made the issue much more obvious, but I've never had an issue with doing this before with colour negatives. I scanned some E6 yesterday as well and the problem didn't appear in these scans so I'm leaning towards it being either the film or the developing.
Any thoughts? Also, any thoughts how it might be best fixed in Photoshop?
Tim
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