Wednesday, June 30, 2010
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Monday, June 7, 2010
Juicy!
The colors in this film are just about as juicy as that swollen citrus! I just want to take a bite! Mmmm...Rollei 2.8C Xenotar
Fuji T64 120 Cross Processed
Sunday, June 6, 2010
"The way of the future" High ISO film test pt.2 - 500T vs. 800z & 400h!
Within the last year digital has made great leaps in high ISO capabilities. But unbeknownst to the world outside of hollywood, film has been making it's own advances well into it's supposed afterlife. This is part 2 of our Kodak Vision 3 500T motion picture film test. For part 1 we set up a controlled study, which can be viewed here. This time we brought our Nikon F3 with 250 exposure MF-4 back to a wedding. Most of the day was to be very low light photojournalistic coverage of a traditional Jewish wedding (full real wedding post coming very soon!). We shot the 500t along side our Nikon FE-2's, range finders, and TLR's and the results are amazing! We had the ECN-2 film processed by Technicolor here in Hollywood, and I scanned all of these samples on our Fuji Frontier with no post-correction in the computer. This is the honest truth!
First off, during preparations we shot some 400h in the lobby of the hotel. We usually overexpose our 400h by a stop. But the 500T? no need. One under is just fine!
The 500T in 35mm holds up against medium format, could you image 500T220? The exposure difference under the altar was 3 stops and change. Look at that DR!
This bulk back came in super handy through all the events leading up to the ceremony in this low lit temple.
This shot was taken during the day with window light metered off of the table.
The most amazing thing is the versatility of this film. All temperatures of light and extreme under and over exposure produces acceptable images. But 800z does have a look all it's own.
Color images in low light are possible on film! That's the cinematographer's dirty little secret...
This just demonstrates the advances and potential in film, that are kept just out of arms reach, since the popularization of the "film is dead" ideology, when in fact film is still just maturing! Digital would have a hard time getting these kind of images straight out of the camera, or even through RAW processing. I don't even care if I could achieve it through the right combination of money+time, I still love film! :-)
Friday, June 4, 2010
Old Frankie
Instant negatives made from FP-3000b45 expired in 2002, shot on Frankie, my little 4x5 rf Land camera that we made. We found out that this film, for some reason, has to be rated at ISO 12000! Something to do with the expired chemistry I guess. Cool thing is we have 110 sheets left!
