Exactly. Cross processing is an entirely different animal. In modern times, some of the movie film stocks were designed to be transfered to digital video -- scanned if you will. So they scan rather nicely one frame at a time for the still photographer. Paul On Sep 21, 2007, at 8:21 PM, John Sessoms wrote:
> 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 > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
