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CineStill Silver
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Playing around with processing CineStill in black and white chemistry. Apparently you can rate it at ISO 400 and use similar processing times to TRI-X and get really great results! Let us know how your results come out.
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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
Posted by CineStill on
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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Beta test in C-41 & ECN-2
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CineStill 500T rated at EI 640ish:
Left - C41, Right - ECN2. The densitometery is virtually identical, but the C41 has a bit of a bump of separation in the blacks ("Inkier" or more tonality).