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There's no need to pay for more software, just try to adjust your settings in Silverfast and save it per film. But as per my other ratty response - with varying light conditions, you will still need some adjustment in photoshop. It's easy once you see it, and the difference is quite tangible.
Using hue/saturation, selecting Magenta, and killing the saturation for that slider is incredibly easy. So long as there were no actual details lost, it is an easy fix. If there are details going grey as a result, you shift the hue for magenta to a yellow colour normally.
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Thank you very much for your elaborate answer / explanation!
Like I said I use SilverFast (Ai, v6.5) at home - with a QUATO IntelliScan 5000 (apparently a rebranded Plustek 8200i), which is a discontinued dedicated 35mm scanner in the sub-€500 range (so I'm not expecting miracles, though the thing has a pretty good reputation).
I take it that when you speak of profiles this is what SilverFast calls "NegaFix (profiles)".
The thing is they stopped doing those years ago as they say they are unable to now, so there (for example) aren't even profiles for the new Portras.
I haven't gone through the tedious process of making my own profiles yet.
Maybe I should really invest the time to do so, alas I'm not sure how well I can do given my (slight red-green) color vision deficiency.
So what I often do is just use a wrong profile / use one that looks better than the others (sometimes playing a bit with colour sliders in SilverFast as well though I like to avoid this).
So with (new) Portra 400 I choose the old Portra 160 VC profile for example.
There are Films (like Kodak Gold) where the dedicated profile just looks very bad / way too contrast-y - so I use a different one for this as well - I just checked; the last roll (the cars with the magenta cast, shot on Kodak Gold) I scanned with the old Portra 400 VC profile - which looked fine at first but as we can agree is definitely very magenta.
It does not help that SilverFast and my computer have their own quirks; meaning that sometimes the file I get after scanning looks very different from what I saw in the preview window.
This seems to happen especially if the computer went in idle / sleep mode during the roll and I resume scanning later, though sometimes it does not happen.
I'm at loss. Already had long chats with a very helpful guy at LaserSoft, who was kind enough to help me get the best possible drivers for this old piece of technology. Maybe I'll just have to call it a day soon.
Thought about purchasing "ColorPerfect" to solve the problem but this seems even more faff to use as doing one's own profiles so..
Anyway, thanks again!