Kodak Film 5203 - Color Film ISO 50

[dmr]

I've had good luck with the Cinestill branded version of this.

 

[dave lackey]

I've had good luck with the Cinestill branded version of this.

That is great to know.. where did you get your film?🙂

The Cinestill 50 (35mm film) and the Cinestill 50D (120 film) certainly look promising! And C-41 to boot and NO rem-jet!

https://cinestillfilm.com/products/50daylight-36exp-135-fine-grain-color-film-35mm-roll

 

[Corran]

The Cinestill 50 (35mm film) and the Cinestill 50D (120 film) certainly look promising! And C-41 to boot and NO rem-jet![/url]

Try processing the Vision films with RA4 developer (it has the same CD component as ECN-2). Then continue with the normal C41 bleach, fix and stabiliser. It should produce better colour, and most importantly, less colour cross-over.

My experiments with Kodak and Fuji movie film in C41 chemicals showed magenta shadows and cyan highlights which were tough to remove when scanned, and make darkroom printing very difficult.

FYI, Cinestill is still a motion picture film, just with the remjet removed and repackaged. So the suggestions given above and others online about processing in different chemistry is valid. A lot of sins can be fixed in scanning but when I get around to playing with the 400' of 250D in my freezer it'll probably be with RA4 developer as mentioned, which I have seen better results from.

 

[brbo]

FYI, Cinestill is still a motion picture film, just with the remjet removed and repackaged. So the suggestions given above and others online about processing in different chemistry is valid. A lot of sins can be fixed in scanning but when I get around to playing with the 400' of 250D in my freezer it'll probably be with RA4 developer as mentioned, which I have seen better results from.

Quite right.


I once did a test with Vision3 5203 (50D) in 3 different developers.

ECN-2:



C-41:



RA-4:



ECN-2 was post-processed to have somewhat higher saturation than I would usually go for (to make the differences more apparent). C-41 and RA-4 developed film was then post-processed to give similar rendition, but I didn't go into matching every single difference...

 

[Corran]

Look at the highlights.

 

[brbo]

I cant see any difference! Which part of the image do the differences stand out?

Maybe I need new glasses.

You can't see any difference?!

The C-41 and RA-4 were matched to ECN-2, but there are still differences. Greens in C-41 are really muddy (less so in RA-4), yellows just don't feel right...

It's not the best example and the problem with certain colours would be more obvious with other scenes.

Now, many people don't see or care (or are easily convinced that this is how film should look) for this. If they also like halos and reduced sharpness, they have the option of buying exquisitely expensive Cinestill film and treat it as C-41 😉