[rollei_list] Re: [rolleiusers] Argomania
- From: Eric Goldstein <egoldste@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 16 Jan 2010 22:00:53 -0500
Eastman 5247 was the name of the famous long-standing industry
standard 35 mm motion picture negative film. I shot my share, usually
in an Arriflex. I have no idea what Seattle Film works actually
spooled into 35 mm still cassettes...
Eric Goldstein
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On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 9:41 PM, David Sadowski <dsadowski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yes, this film was generally marketed under the name 5247 or some
> such. There were numerous problems that made using this film
> impractical in a still camera:
>
> 1. The film has much lower contrast than conventional neg film
> 2. The film was designed to be shot at one shutter speed (the speed of
> a motion picture camera) so there were reciprocity problems
> 3. The film was designed to be shot under tungsten light
> 4. The film did not have an anti-scratch coating, unlike regular 35mm
> still camera film
> 5. The film has some nasty sort of black junk as a backing that has to
> be completely stripped off prior to development, otherwise it wil ruin
> your chemistry
>
> The labs like Seatle Film Works that sold this bought it for next to
> nothing (leftover movie film) and you pretty much had to return it to
> them for processing. That's where they made their money.
>
> Because of these sorts of problems, results were generally miserable
> and it was the bane of minilabs. People would bring the stuff in all
> the time and you would have to send them away, and explain why. I
> forget whether there were any sorts of frame numbers.
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