Kodak Vision 3 film
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If you have the right chemicals, you can find the formula on the Kodak tech pubs
Finally, I ran a roll of vision 3 250D 35mm film on camera and developed normally using Fuji C41 chemicals. I do not have ECN-2 chemicals. I did not remove rem-jet layer before development as some people on forums mentioned that it can be removed after development. Development went out well and the negative tonality looks good. However I am not so sure how accurate the colours because of the orange mask. Anyone have ideas how to see the true colours? I am using epson scan software and i suspect the software did a AWB for me so the pictures' colour looks good on scan. What are the ways to see if the film colours are developed accurately?
I feel that the film does have a lower contrast since its gamma is 0.5, hence alot of details are stored on the negative.
The rem-jet removal process was a messy one for the first try. Firstly some of the rem-jet sticks to the reel and tank, so it had to be wiped out. I am also worried that the rem-jet contaminates the bleach and the fixer. For the negative, I used a wet tissue to remove the rem-jet. I suppose some of the rem-jet went to the emulsion side as you can see in the following pictures. I am not sure if it is during development or washing which caused this. You can see the effects of rem-jet left over from the pictures. Many more experiments to go to harness the potential of vision 3 film!
Attached are some of the photos scanned using epson scan using V700.
Rem-jet not completely removed
I love the cinematic feel to this film when shot at night.
I feel that the film does have a lower contrast since its gamma is 0.5, hence alot of details are stored on the negative.
The rem-jet removal process was a messy one for the first try. Firstly some of the rem-jet sticks to the reel and tank, so it had to be wiped out. I am also worried that the rem-jet contaminates the bleach and the fixer. For the negative, I used a wet tissue to remove the rem-jet. I suppose some of the rem-jet went to the emulsion side as you can see in the following pictures. I am not sure if it is during development or washing which caused this. You can see the effects of rem-jet left over from the pictures. Many more experiments to go to harness the potential of vision 3 film!
Attached are some of the photos scanned using epson scan using V700.
Rem-jet not completely removed
I love the cinematic feel to this film when shot at night.
If anyone has used this film before, do share your inputs and photos here. 
kgston, can I ask for your expertise for a quick and fast way to determine if there is colour shift on a colour negative (if any of such methods are available)? The only way I can think of is to select the white point on the film base and lock the colour values with respect to the film base. Is that a good way?
kgston, can I ask for your expertise for a quick and fast way to determine if there is colour shift on a colour negative (if any of such methods are available)? The only way I can think of is to select the white point on the film base and lock the colour values with respect to the film base. Is that a good way?
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If anyone has used this film before, do share your inputs and photos here.
kgston, can I ask for your expertise for a quick and fast way to determine if there is colour shift on a colour negative (if any of such methods are available)? The only way I can think of is to select the white point on the film base and lock the colour values with respect to the film base. Is that a good way?
Imho, you cannot tell the WB with neg film at all, short of printing the frame using RA-4 process. But for all practical purposes, shift or no shift, if you are able to get correct colours thru the scan software, then its ok.. Colour accuracy was never a key determinant when it comes to negatives.
Yeah the only way is to do it on a RA-4 process. I wonder if C41 control strips will help by visual judgement. Now what we lack is a densitometer...
I want to see if my own C41 process is comparable to the labs as you have known the E6 processing we guys have was giving some issues with regards to colour balnace when looking at the control strips.
Yup, with c41 control strips, you can compare the output visually with the reference strip. But for small tank processing, it is very hard to always get perfect consistent results; too many variables involved; temp, conc. agitation, duration..
