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11 hours ago, ianman said:

I agree and @Steven is making wonderful use of it. How does one develop this film? Isn't it some weird process that's only offered by a few labs worldwide? Or can it be done at home?

I enquired the same thing of my lab yesterday here in Sydney.  They said they don't touch anything with Remjet however referred me to a lab in Melbourne that do (Nano Lab for anyone on this side of the world).  

So I assume there are few options in each country perhaps but certain labs will handle it.  The stock I have bought says 'Hand Development (contains Remjet - don't lab develop'... So I emailed my lab before purchasing .

I bought 250D but noticed the same wanting was on the 200T and 500T options 

Great photos @Steven 

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8 hours ago, ianman said:

Actually it seems that CineStill 800 is the Kodak Vision 3 and can be developed using C-41.

 https://www.retrocamera.be/en/35mm-film-color-negative-cinestill/392-cinestill-800t-tungsten-xpro-c-41-135-36-4260243553596.html

Great.  is this one for night-time use mainly?  I wasn't sure whether to buy the T's (tungsten ? ) or the 250D which is daylight .  Went for the D in the end.

Have always fancied trying the CineStill 800 and will at some point 

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Side question do we need to take any special precautions for packaging exposed film that is going on flights to be developed (re X-Rays etc) ?  I've never sent a film anywhere other than local until now 

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11 hours ago, Steven said:

 

https://silbersalz35.com

Thanks Steven, really good to know. Great website. I ordered 4x V3-250D and look forward to trying it all out.

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Just now, Steven said:

Be careful, the D is out of stock for a month. I think you need to order 200T if you want to get it fast. You wont be disappointed, to me it’s the best stock after 500T. 

Thanks . I'll check it out !

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17 minutes ago, Steven said:

If you plan to ship your film from outside of Europe and it will go through a plane, i would get low ASA film. Max 250. Above that i think it’s more risky because when you ship is not the same as when your bring your film on a carry on. The X ray machines for cargo are MUCH more powerful than the airport ones. Could damage high sensititvy film. 

But below 500 iso, if its only one x ray you should still be ok. 

Great, thanks for that .  Let's see  

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32 minutes ago, grahamc said:

Great, thanks for that .  Let's see  

Some clarification here (and there's threads about this all over the net). Until recently cargo and hold-luggage scans were usually more powerful than the machines that your carry-on bags go through and so it was recommended to always carry film with you when going through an airport. The carry-on machines were usually described as safe for 400iso film and below. In the last year or two however there are a new generation of carry-on scanners that are much more powerful being installed that do damage film. If you do some googling you'll find various articles etc where people are trying to work out which airports are now dangerous to carry film through at all. What is a bit of an unknown though is what scans the post goes through. I've never had damaged negs from sending film to a lab, although always within Europe.

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16 minutes ago, convexferret said:

Some clarification here (and there's threads about this all over the net). Until recently cargo and hold-luggage scans were usually more powerful than the machines that your carry-on bags go through and so it was recommended to always carry film with you when going through an airport. The carry-on machines were usually described as safe for 400iso film and below. In the last year or two however there are a new generation of carry-on scanners that are much more powerful being installed that do damage film. If you do some googling you'll find various articles etc where people are trying to work out which airports are now dangerous to carry film through at all. What is a bit of an unknown though is what scans the post goes through. I've never had damaged negs from sending film to a lab, although always within Europe.

OK great, thanks ! Yes true I didn't consider that it's probably different for post .  This is internally within Australia since the only lab is in Melbourne for this stock 

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20 minutes ago, convexferret said:

Some clarification here (and there's threads about this all over the net). Until recently cargo and hold-luggage scans were usually more powerful than the machines that your carry-on bags go through and so it was recommended to always carry film with you when going through an airport. The carry-on machines were usually described as safe for 400iso film and below. In the last year or two however there are a new generation of carry-on scanners that are much more powerful being installed that do damage film. If you do some googling you'll find various articles etc where people are trying to work out which airports are now dangerous to carry film through at all. What is a bit of an unknown though is what scans the post goes through. I've never had damaged negs from sending film to a lab, although always within Europe.

https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/257951-film-in-checked-flight-luggage/

 

https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/281487-how-do-i-protect-photography-film-from-xray-while-traveling/

 

https://www.l-camera-forum.com/topic/302636-new-3d-airport-scanners-will-destroy-unprocessed-camera-film/

 

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15 hours ago, petermullett said:

I am not sure if there are kits for home souping of these cine films. When I used them back in the US I used to have a contact at a cine lab in Washington DC that would attach my still shot films to the runs they were doing for regular cine 400' / 100' loads. There's a RamJet layer on the cine stocks that has to be removed with a pre-bath before the developing process can go forward. Cine labs have the baths to do this but I don't think the baths are available outside of lab' kits.........but to be honest I don't know. I also don't know how Steven got his processed either, maybe he too has cine lab contacts but there are not any of those left in France now to my knowledge, Pathe was the last I think and that closed down years ago.......

 

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14 hours ago, ianman said:

Oh that's good news

You can get a kit where I get most of my film stuff from https://www.retrocamera.be/en/darkroom-color-chemistry-film-developers/1811-bellini-ecn-2-motion-picture-film-home-processing-kit-1l.html

Now to find the actual film in these parts!!!

and also https://quietweredreaming.com/ecn2-kit

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On ‎8‎/‎31‎/‎2021 at 5:26 PM, Steven said:

MP + Steel Rim @ F4 + Kodak Vision 3 200T

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I really like your film photos. Congratulations. Nice set. One of the best within this forum in recent summer months. I think 35mm lens suits you better than 28 Lux. (Just my humble opinion 🙂 ) Are all photos taken with Lux 35 pre ASPH?

Where are Mr Agnelli and Onasis? 🙂  I'm really happy to see proofs "Dolce vita" way of life still exists... 

 

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am Quite curious how you got these warm tones with 200T and no 85 filter, or is it actually 250D ?

 

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vor einer Stunde schrieb Steven:

Loaded the film in my MP, exposed, shot, rewinded the film, sent it to Silbersalz, waited three days for a dropbox link, and posted them here without editing! 

One thing I love about the scans of that lab is that the get the entire image (see the black frames) while most other labs crop in a bit. 

So, Silbersalz corrected the wrong color temperature probably?

Otherwise all pictures would be pitch-blue since the 200T is a Tungsten film for 3400K instead of 5600K Daylight you used it for.

You never received prints and negatives?

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@Steven liking this series a lot ; the colour palette and subject choice works as a great homage to Lartigue’s ‘Life in color’ collection.

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1 hour ago, Steven said:

3. My edit of the RAW file

Is better than theirs IMO.

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5 hours ago, Helge said:

corrected the wrong color temperature probably?

as far as i know that's not easy to do and get natural colors, unless they packed 250d and labelled it 200t by mistake

 

but anyways, lovely shots as usual

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I've not tried the cine films but have thought about it and Stephen's pictures are certainly an inspiration for those interested in a "cinematic" film look.

Here in the UK there is a small photo lab that sells rolled-up cine films (taken from short-ends supplied by the film industry) and ECN2/Remjet processing (including kits for DIY).  I have been using them for C41 processing with excellent results.  Maybe it is time to try ECN2 ... https://ntphotoworks.com

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On 9/3/2021 at 4:36 AM, Steven said:

Now he's another interesting thing. 

I got close to the guys at Silbersalz this week because I really like their scanning methods. We've spoken about Portra, and it turns out that they believe that they might be able to get very interesting results when developing Portra stock in their ECN-2 sauce. 

So naturally I volunteered to become a beta tester for that, and I just sent them 10 rolls of Portra 160 that I shot in the mountains. Film hasn't reached them yet, but I cant wait to see how it turns out. 

I'll share it here if there is any interest! 

Definitely interested to see the results 😊. 
thanks a lot for sharing.  
 

Great photos, really like them. They are filled with life 😊.