On 10 Jan 1999 19:18:55 GMT, williamsg@ahecas.AHEC.EDU (Gary Williams, Business Services Accounting) wrote:

>Is it possible for the lens to influence the color rendition of an image?

Yes....

>I recently took some photos of a rather muddy waterfall. My wife, using a
>different camera, took some shots that were of essentially the same subject
>under identical lighting. My prints (it was print film) are considerably
>more reddish than hers.

Most likely due to printing differences... Try having either negative
reprinted, and you will see yet another color bias! ;-)

>I'd assume this was in the printing, but they were done at the same lab at
>the same time. Is the most likely explanation that they were done on
>different machines that were calibrated differently, or can the lens impart
>color to an image?

Lenses can show subtle brilliance differences, and subtle
warm vs. cool balance differences, but you would need to
shoot the same roll of slide film in both cameras of the
same subjects under the same conditions with exactly the
same exposures to know the differences.