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Kodak
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Fuji
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Slow
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Name:Kodak Ektar 100
Speed: 100 or 125
Type: Colour Negative
Jessops Description: This high saturation film offers the finest grain of any colour negative film available (as of August 2012). It is therefore ideal for making enlargements and for scanning.
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Could not find any fast Colour negative films, so was thinking of using Reversal instead. I know this will produce differences.
Name: Fuji Velvia 50
Speed: 50
Type: Colour Reversal
Description from Calumet Photographic: Fujichrome Velvia is the benchmark ISO 50 daylight-type colour reversal film in the industry. Its 17-layer structure delivers a unique level of power and sharpness, whilst its brilliant colour reproduction, tonal range and image execution put Velvia in a class of its own. Designed for the wide-ranging needs of fashion, advertising, nature, and scientific photography, when highly detailed image renderings and colour enhancement are required.
Velvia is also available at 100.
Name: Fuji Provia 100F
Speed: 100
Type: Colour Reversal
Description from Calumet Photographic: With the smoothest, sharpest performance of any 100 ISO colour film in the world, Fujichrome Provia 100F is a truly remarkable development of this popular range of reversal films for the professional. The result is a film that couples exceptional image quality with incredible ease of use, delivering the same versatility and dependability that photographers have come to expect from professional Fujichrome.
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Medium
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Name: Kodak Colour Plus (Actually Kodak Colorplus because of American spelling)
Speed: 200
Type: Colour Negative
Jessops Description: This ColorPlus film offers really fine grain and natural looking results under mixed daylight conditions. This film produces brillant images when you want nostalgic-type results.
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Name: Fuji Superia 200
Speed: 200
Type: Colour Negative
Jessops Description: Fujicolor Superia 200 is an excellent and truly reliable general purpose film. Having won many awards for its quality, the film features the following characteristics:
The film utilises Fuji's 4th emulsion layer technology to dramaticaly improve the reproduction and accuracy of difficult violet and green colours.
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Fast
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Name: Kodak Gold 400
Speed: 400
Type: Colour Negative
Jessops Description: This Kodak Gold 400 provides a unique balance of fine grain, sharpness, color reproduction and contrast to yield results with excellent clarity and enlargement capability. It is designed for exposure with daylight or electronic flash. With the Iso 400 speed you can get better pictures in a wider range of light conditions and sharper pictures with moving objects.
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Name: Fuji Superia 400
Speed: 400
Type: Colour Negative
Jessops Description:
Superia 400 would be ideal for available light photography or for the occasions when a higher shutter speed is required. Excellent results can also be expected when the weather or lighting conditions are unpredictable. The wide exposure latitude is forgiving of most photographic situations.
The versatility of the film emulsion helped it become the film of choice for many zoom compact cameras. The higher speed helps stop camera shake at the far end of the zoom.
Other characteristics include:
This film includes Fuji's patented 4th emulsion layer technology for dramatic improvements in colour accuracy. It is especially noticeable in the difficult violet and green colour ranges.
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Reversal Stocks:
I want to use a good medium speed reversal stock for Cross Processing experiments. I was looking through different stocks and it is very difficult to find a medium speed colour reversal film of about 200 ISO.
The only one I managed to find was Lomography X-Pro 200 which I was put off due to the fact that it was described in the description as having tones that create a, “Retro-effect.” Does this mean that images taken with this stock look more degraded, or is it just a description that has been chosen to make it sound more fashionable? The description does offer some explanation of what this might mean however, stating that the images have, “Increased contrast and saturation.” I think that possibly the increased contrast and saturation in this stock is perhaps intended to increase the expressionism of the images and give them a certain visual beauty that can only be reached as the result of a slight detachment from reality. This concept would usually be appealing to me, but because I am intending to use the film to cross process it is not so much. I think my intention really with cross processing is to reach a balance between the surreality caused by the differences in colour, but to not push it to the extent where the image becomes completely removed from the realms of earthliness.
If I ended up with an image like this one then, (where the grass is still green and the fence is still woody, but just in a different fashion to what it would be in reality and the sky is a dull rusty orange) I would consider it a successful photo. However…
...if my image ended up like this (where everything has become a trippy colour) I would consider it a failure. I want to achieve a subtle surreality, not an extreme surreality. For this reason I think a stock which promises a detachment from reality already, or a, “Retro-effect,” as they describe it, might not be the right stock because it may produce results that are too extreme.
I have decided instead then to buy another roll of the 100 colour reversal instead.
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