From: Axel Belinfante >>> There was a place in Hollywood called RGB that rewound several >>> > > movie stocks for still camera use. They would process it both as a >>> > > film positive and as prints. >> > >> > That's the place! I have more than a few RGB boxes of slides in my >> > drawer. And I got prints, too (which seemed the best of both >> > possible worlds at the time). >> > >> > Even though the negatives are difficult to print, it's cool to have >> > the multiple types of output. That is, it WAS cool - back in the day >> > when I had "film" to be "processed", whatever that means. :-) > > once for me a few E6 films got accidentally processed as C41. > the resulting negatives were hard to process, > at least judging from most of the results > (one mini lab succeeded to get good prints, elsewhere colors > got pretty miserable) > > just curious: are the negatives that you refer to similar? > >
E-6 is sometimes cross-processed deliberately to get those weird colors. I believe the idea behind the movie film was the negative was meant to be contact printed onto another "negative" film to make the positive print (neg + neg = pos) that was projected in the theatre. That probably required a very different characteristic curve than is required for making paper prints from regular (C-41) negative film. Wouldn't surprise me if there are two different curves, one for the negative and one for the positive printed from the negative. The movie films would have been formulated to produce those different curves. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
