> > > I've seen this sort of thing once before - slide shots of some > flowers in New Zealand exhibited a very similar alteration. > The cause is that film (and, I assume, the CCD sensor) is more > senstive to the low-UV than the human eye. Objects with a high > component of UV in their appearance can look very different.
Oops. Make that IR and near-IR, not UV. There is increased sensitivity into the UV, too, but that causes things to look more blue, not more red. Proof-read more carefully!