I was going through my film inventory and I found this roll of CineStill 50D that I forgot I had bought(I actually don't even remember when I did). So as I usually do I turned to the 'net to do a bit of research before shooting it. It turns out that this is actually a Kodak motion picture film that CineStill cuts down and removes the remjet layer from - a remjet layer is for is necessary for movie cameras but makes the film not able to be developed by traditional still film process(c41). So it is kind of a neat, novel film to try. It is supposed to be the least grainy film on the market and I don't think I could argue with that. My scanner seamed to treat the color balance a little strange on some of the images but a quick correction in Photoshop had it looking quite good. The other thing of note is that this film is fairly low contrast.
This first set of images was from a foggy morning at the Countryside Curbside Farmers Market at Old Trail School. I had to be there early with Erin so I did some wandering.
Oh, by the way, the name "50D" stands for what the film is - 50 ISO daylight balanced film.
I find the results quite pleasing with a vintage look. My research seemed to show that C41 processing doesn't give the same results as the motion picture process of ECN-2 - so this isn't going to give you the exact same look as the movie version.
Since I have been on a black and white kick lately(because I could develop it at home when we were under the stay at home order) I tried to find as much color to shoot as possible.
Colour as the Brits say
Blue Handle
...and the actual market that I have been volunteering at.
This next set of images is from out bike packing trip to Seville(I'll link a video about that at the bottom of the post).
Brad in motion
The scan of this image came out way over exposed and very purple-y - it is corrected in PS
This film is supposed to be highly regarded for its skin tone rendering.
We camped at our friends dairy farm - Yellow House Cheese.
...and a couple bonus images:
All in all I would shoot this again if looking for some interesting color negative film - it isn't cheap though at $12.99 a 36 exposure roll.
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