Hi guys - hope someone can help me. I'm new to film and have just run my first roll through a Minolta X300 using Kodak Ultramax. I'm seeing a weird effect that I don't understand. Each image on the roll seems to have a greenish cast on the left hand side and a magenta cast on the right hand side (which also looks underexposed, though maybe that's the cast?). Is this a camera fault, faulty film or developing fault? I'm attaching two scans here from the developing lab, but I can see it on the negatives as well, so it's not the scanning.
In the first shot the two blue/yellow-topped columns are in real life the same colour. in the second shot the water looks green on the left and magenta on the right hand side. Since posting this I've looked at all the roll and I see uneven exposure from right to left which may be a shutter issue (?) I think that's another thing I need to deal with, but would this cause the different colour casts on each side?
It might be helpful if you show us pictures of the negative so we can see the change of cast you see. We need you to help us otherwise we will quickly enter into an unproductive argument about what each of us sees
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Uneven exposure can manifest itself in an apparent colour shift across the frame if it is combined with an unwanted colour cast at the printing/scanning stage or, even worse, a developing problem that results in the dreaded colour crossover.
Not sure I have the means to get a good image of the negative to upload here, but the I think the uneven exposure may be the cause, which as I understand it is due to the shutter curtains moving at different speeds so the slot width is not constant as it crosses the film plane? Is that correct?
I've spoken to the person I bought it from and he's going to get the shutter adjusted for me. Hopefully that will solve both issues. Thanks for the help.