News — C-41
CineStill Performs - Giffords Circus on 800T by Nasir Hamid
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"I love the look of this film, the dynamic range is amazing with plenty of latitude in the scans for adjusting if I wanted to but best of all I don't have to faff around with filters or plugins to make my shots look like film. Forget about faking it, this is the real deal." -Nasir Hamid
Photography by Nasir Hamid, see more on his Simply Oxford photoblog.
"I rated the film at ISO500 and shot it in a...
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CineStill Rocks! - Bret Michaels on 800T by Fabio Ventura
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"I have photographed Rock concerts on film for while now, and no other 35mm color film I have used comes close in latitude and tonality. I have used Portra 400 & 800, as well as fujifilm Superia 1600. Cinestill wins every time."
~Fabio Ventura
~Fabio Ventura
Lab scans are from Indie Film Lab, on Fuji Frontier SP3000, shot at 1000iso, dev +1.
My request of them is pretty...
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Synchronized film speed exposure test - Fujifilm Pro400H | Fujifilm Superia 800 | Kodak Portra 800 | CineStill 800Tungsten
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We wanted to do a real world test of the best ISO rating of CineStill in Tungsten light. So we built a rig that synchronized 4 Nikon cameras with 50mm lenses on them, in order to test 4 great film stocks rated at different ISO's. Though CineStill is natively an EI500 film, we expected it to to prove comparable to an ISO800 film in low light. As a low end control we also threw in a roll of...
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Beta test of 500T, P400, & P800 pushed in tungsten light
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P400 vs 500T vs P800 rated at EI 800 and underexposed a stop.
Portra400 pushed 2 stops to 1600 vs CineStill 500T pushed 2 stops to 2000
CineStill 500T pushed 2 stops to 2000 vs Portra800 pushed 1 stop to 1600
CineStill 500T at EI 800ish, normal processing. Dimly lit bar. Leica M2 Nokton 35mm 1.2
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Beta test exposure bracketing 500Tungsten
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Mixed tungsten and gloomy window light, general in camera meter. Full stop bracketing. No push processing in standard C-41 machine. Scanned on a Fuji Frontier SP2500 w/ minor correction.
100%crop from the same scene so you can see how exposure effects grain.
Very cool overcast light on a rainy day in L.A. from EI 100-6400 no push, no filter, ugly image of boring building (pretty much as bad as it...
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Beta test of 500T & P800 in tungsten light
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This is our fist side by side analysis once we perfected Premoval. CineStill 500Tungsten xPro C41 alongside Portra 800 normal processing, straight scan, 100%. The original 500T in ECN2 chemicals had bit more pronounced shadow grain than the CineStill in C-41, but nearly identical latitude and color balance.
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Riccis Valladares' Beta Carnies
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Beta test in C-41 & ECN-2
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CineStill 500T rated at EI 640ish:
