Ektachrome 64T and it's amazing colors

[alex-rus]

Ektachrome 64T - very good film.

I want to order Fuji 64T from Wittner Kinotecnik and to compare it with Kodak Ektachrome 64T, with Zenit Quarz 8XL camera.

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Alexander, super-8 filmmaker from Russia, Krasnoyarsk

[marc]

Just got back a roll of Ektachrome 64T that I shot while on vacation. This was my first time using this stock, all I can say is the colors are truly amazing. This stuff looks truly awesome projected. The process I would assume has improved over the last 2 yrs or so. I had it processed through walmart via Fuji, then Dwayne's. Dwyane's did a very nice job.
I used a Minolta Autopak 8 D6 camera to film, and the results were better than I expected. No jamming, or jumping of the film, and I was able to get the most out of this stock, ran all the way through with no problems. I even relyed solely on the auto exposure, however, with this camera you are able to lock the f-stop, which I did on most of the scenes, the camera got it right every time. Processing took only a week, makes one want to shoot more film, with how easy it is to have processing done in this manner.

Is your D6 the one with the 8.4-50 mm or the 7.5 - 45mm zoom lens?

[marc]

100D is great though. A really neat stock.

For my next test, I would like to shoot 100D Regular 8 at 30 fps and see how it looks transfered to video. I tried this with Kodachrome but unfortunately, I was using a camera that uses separate light meter batteries and the batteries were on their last leg. With the overexposre, too much of it was blown out.

[Shanec8mm]

Hi Marc

My Minolta D-6 has the 8.4 to 50mm lens. Another interesting thing about this camera is the film gate is similiar to the Leicina's film gate. The top part tampers a bit, holding the film tighter for steadier images. I posted photo's of my findings here in the pictures section. My images are rock solid with this camera, and the auto exposure is spot on. I sometimes use the meter lock but not always.

[MusicConductor]

Here's a frame from 64T that I shot last year, captured from the screen via a Canon 3-CCD DV camera. The fact that it's a contrasty subject and has little blue does help compensate for the wide angle shot. Yes, this does look better on the screen than on video, but either way it is both more lifelike in color and far less clear than K40, at least to my eye.

[img]http://home.earthlink.net/~musicconduct ... e_hike.jpg[/img]

[VideoFred]

Nice... very nice. Colors are exellent.

here's the link:
http://home.earthlink.net/~musicconduct ... e_hike.jpg

Fred.

[marc]

Hi Marc

My Minolta D-6 has the 8.4 to 50mm lens. Another interesting thing about this camera is the film gate is similiar to the Leicina's film gate. The top part tampers a bit, holding the film tighter for steadier images. I posted photo's of my findings here in the pictures section. My images are rock solid with this camera, and the auto exposure is spot on. I sometimes use the meter lock but not always.

Is there a "D6 Professional"? I saw on Mondofoto a description of like that.

[marc]

Hi Marc

My Minolta D-6 has the 8.4 to 50mm lens. Another interesting thing about this camera is the film gate is similiar to the Leicina's film gate. The top part tampers a bit, holding the film tighter for steadier images. I posted photo's of my findings here in the pictures section. My images are rock solid with this camera, and the auto exposure is spot on. I sometimes use the meter lock but not always.

That could represent a whole new aspect of the Super 8 business: Gate mods for steadier images!

[Will2]

I want to order Fuji 64T from Wittner Kinotecnik and to compare it with Kodak Ektachrome 64T, with Zenit Quarz 8XL camera.

Wouldn't Fuji 64T be a negative stock? Fine stock but hard to compare to a reversal...

I've used it in 16mm and found it ok, but I like Kodak's Vision2 100T or 50D better. The Fuji stock is their older formulation, the "F" series and not Reala or Eterna.

I have some of the 160T "Vivid" Eterna shot and in the can waiting for processing... that could be an interesting stock for Super 8.

[dsam7]

Just uploaded a re-edited compressed film shot on Ektachrome 64T. The lens on the Nalcom isn't as sharp as I'd like and the colours not as vivid as my Quarz test but it was fun to use.

Music is "The Glittering sun" from "The Morning" by Arne.

See:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QajerhAM5N4

Have sound on.

[adamgarner]

So, this is a really interesting thread. Am I to understand that E64 will yield fuzzy results when using zoom? More so than Tri-X? Wouldn't the camera matter as well? I am using a 1014 and would hope that the detail wouldn't be lost on long shots. Of course at full zoom you are losing light into the lens... perhaps that's what's happening here? Less light, less detail more grain?

I haven't shot any rolls of e64 so any guidance before would be much appreciated.

[fairchild]

hello

just got my first(and second) rolls of 64T back today from Dwaynes...went down to the falls and got some nice shots although some were overexposed..(damnit!)..my first time shooting s8..everyone tells me im crazy(for not using a digital camera) but i dont care i love it!!

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[MoonstruckProductions]

It's an addiction. And you are going to love it.

When I took my family to Vegas, I carried around my Nizo 801, my HCR5 HDV cam and my Olympus E-500. I looked like a professional tourist. I brought 10 carts of 64T. When it was all said and done, it cost me over $200 to shoot on film what cost me $9 to shoot on video.

But you can't replace the moment when we invited our family and friends over and we watched all of the film in the living room on a $25 projector. Where else can you get a 60" big screen for $25?

-Scott