Tungsten film in sunlight - color-correct the scan?

[celluloidprop]

I can acquire 50 rolls of cold-stored/outdated Fuji RTPII tungsten slide film (ISO 64) for about a dollar apiece.

For use in daylight, would there be any loss in quality color-correcting after scanning? A warming filter would lose just enough speed to make the film less useful.

 

[Pherdinand]

I only know, that the other way around leads to a good deal of loss of quality. I suppose it should work both ways.
But it's possible; depending on the subject it might be not that important, how close to "reality" the final image will be.

 

[phototone]

If it were me, I would use a filter. ISO 32 (with filter) is close to the original ISO of Kodachrome25, and many award winning photos were made with this film, and you could just consider it a exercise in photo technique. I don't think you can make such broad color balance changes in scanning, without getting color crossover.

 

[scottgee1]

Depends on how picky you are about color. If you are, I'd suggest passing on this and finding a deal for a film you'd really prefer to use.

How much will it cost to process all of that film? Way more than the film itself will cost. I bet you could find some outdated daylight film for about the same price and make your life easy.

OTOH, if the seller will let you shoot a roll so you can test it, that would really answer your question.

FWIW/ScottGee1

 

[tajart]

nice film

nice film

its such nice film, under tungsten light. i have filtered tungsten for daylight and it was okay... just okay, but i didn't explore it to really find out how well it works.
but at 1/10th the price it might be worth trying. then again, maybe you could do a lot of interior shots...

 

[phototone]

In the days of home movies, and particularly Super8, most everybody shot tungsten balanced Kodachrome, and (in Super8) the camera had a built-in color conversion filter to shoot in daylight. Thus one film. If the color conversion filter is a good one, there should be no difference in image quality.