Pike Market, Seattle, 2023
These are from the Seattle Film Club meetup. I didn't bring a tripod and it was a seasonably dark and wet early fall evening so a lot of pictures didn't come out great, but I do like these.
Camera: Canon P w/ Canon 50mm F1.4
Film: Kodak Cinema film with remote removed, shot at 1600
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Technically, Color
So I finally got off my butt and decided to develop color film. The last time I did it, it half worked okay, and was half a disaster. This time... it was half okay and half a disaster. I don't know if I'll ever develop color at home again. I just kinda really hate it.
But I had an odd number of 135 rolls, and since my tank takes 2 rolls of 135 at once, I figured might as well thaw something to shoot.
What is this? This is Kodak Vision3 2383. I can't find a lot of info on it, but apparently it was a duplicating film, and as a consequence of that, it is
super blue, (of course it's yellow, but converted, that's blue)
slow as a sloth on a holiday
Is it a color film? Looking at the pictures, I'd be tempted to say that it's not. Slam that saturation down, go with black and white. But wait... those tail lights.
Hmmm. A little better, but still not convincingly color.
Meh, probably as "color" as it gets.
Yeah, this film is WEIRD. I think since this was a duplicating film designed to counteract orange film bases, it makes sense that things are tinted super blue.
I think there's a cinema film that's also labeled Kodak 2383 that's like a fully chromatic cinema film, and then there's the duplicating stuff. But again, very little documentation on either.
Oh look a bit of "green"(?) in the tree. I also struggled a lot to color balance the shots since there's no way to index it on what the scene is... supposed... to look like, and the film base washed out clear, so I couldn't even use that as a white point.
But what about the other thing I mentioned? Its slowness? Is it iso 100? iso 50? iso 12?
Try 3. Yup. iso 3.
Since my only 35mm camera on hand was the Mercury II (half-frame by Univex), I shot wide open at f/2.7 all the time, and adjusted my shutter speed between 1/30th to 1/60th, most of the time staying at 1/40. Just barely hand-holdable.
Look at these shots though! There's still so little grain for being half-frame shots.
Anyway, those are all my shots. Would I shoot this again? Ehhhhhh no. The results are too experimental for me, and honestly, I don't mind some film grain all that much. I'm glad I had this experience though. Super weird film.
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Trying Kodak Vision 3
Trying Kodak Vision 3: the one where my exposures seem a bit over done! #believeinfilm
I’m currently playing with a bag of expired, in most cases long-expired, colour film. It’s all C41 process so I’ve also resumed colour processing at home too. There are some colour motion picture film stocks though that use an alternative, ECN2, process. I’d read a lot about one particular film stock, Kodak Vision 3, so I decided to give it a try. I chose a 250 ISO daylight balanced version and…
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