Why do my negative scans suddenly have a green/yellow cast?

Asked 7/16/2019

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My negative scans were looking normal, then they suddenly started coming out with a strong green/yellow color cast. One example was overexposed by 1 stop and lit entirely by the sun. I’m trying to figure out whether this is caused by the film, developing chemicals, the camera, or something else.

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Looks like the original image was exposed under a florescent light source. You can apply a correction using your photo editor. Florescent lamps output a non-continuous spectrum. Yellow-green is the normal for these lamps.

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Based on the community answer, this kind of yellow-green cast is most consistent with the lighting in the original scene rather than a camera, film-storage, or processing fault. Fluorescent light often produces a yellow/green cast because its spectrum is uneven, and that can show up strongly in scans.

If the affected frames were shot under fluorescent or mixed lighting, the scan may look green/yellow even if exposure and development were otherwise fine. In that case, the fix is usually simple color correction in your editor or scanner software.

So the most likely cause here is the light source used when the photo was taken, not the camera itself.

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