[filmscanners] Re: My best scanner/film combinations - ideal film

["Bruce" <smthopr@earthlink.net>]

on 12/10/2002 4:00 PM, filmscanners_Digest_owner@halftone.co.uk at
filmscanners_Digest_owner@halftone.co.uk wrote:

> Topic: [filmscanners] Re: My best scanner/film combinations - ideal film
> ===================================================================
> Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 14:13:46 +0000
> From: "Anthony O'Halloran" <anthony@ohalloran.co.uk>
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> I love it when someone talks sense. I would like to confirm everything
> Julian has said through experience.
>
> This leads me on to say what my favourite film WOULD be:
> 1. Colour reversal - Ease to 'see' and file
> 2. Density of the actual film material - same as slide but a stop less
> in the shadows (should eliminate most scanning probs)
> 3. Dynamical range film is able to capture - some where between slide
> and neg. I find that I don't every really utilise the full range
> available on neg film but need more than slide can give me. You would
> not need to 'expand' the histogram so much ending up with a less grainy
> image compared to neg film.
>
> The above film would look low contrast but a slide isn't the end product
> unless you project it. I assume most people on this list want to scan
> their slides!

Great idea Anthony.  I would vote for a high contrast color negative film
without the orange mask.

I was also just thinking that kodak might already make similar films to
these for motion picture printing.

There is a film (or used to be) for making a CRI, or Color Reversal
Intermediate.  The CRI becomes a duplicate negative in one step or printing.
Thus this is a "slide" film. It probably is low in contrast to protect the
info in the negative.

There is also negative stock for printing an "Interpositive". The
Interpositive is used to be printed again to make a duplicate negative, and
thus it is a negative film, but without the orange mask added as in the
original camera negative.

Unfortunately these films are probably balanced for tungsten illumination
and may be very slow in film speed.

Lastly, there was a Extachrome News Reel film that was designed low in
contrast for duplication.  I don't know if it's still manufactured. And if
so probably only in 16mm.

But we could ask Kodak?
-Bruce


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