Shooting Kodachrome & removing color in post?

[maksim]

Did anyone shoot with Kodachrome, and then decided to remove the color in postproduction, feeling the image might fit better the story in B/W after all?

If you did, how does that B/W compares with the TRI-X originated images?

[Maurizio Di Cintio]

Hi, Maksim
I've never done what you are talking about, but I am sure that you'd get a much less grainy B/W image with the method you described.

I think this would be the only important difference. As for other issues such as contrast, gray scale etc. keep in mind you can do almost whatever you want with color/ight correction. So you if you plan to finalize on an electronic medium, shootng K40 rather than Tri-x to get a B/W image might even prove more economical.

Hope this helps.

Maurizio

[woods01]

I would think that making k40 B&W in post would make for a different
greyscale than what a true b&w image would give you. Often B&W film
seen in music videos was actually shot in colour and changed in post.
Tri-X is a pretty harsh B&W image, so it will look quite a bit different from
K40. Have you ever tried shooting Plus-X? Its quite a fine grained and
beautiful film. My favorite S8 stock.

[Kurt8]

There's also the cross-processing method described here - certainly not as flexible as removing the color in post, but maybe worth trying.

http://www.omniprints.com/super8/black&white.html

[Bart Sanders]

Hoi!

Yes, you can do this very well. Look at a sample which has been uploaded onto this site´s FTP section. Look for a file called FoFRalley2002usingQuarz1S8.mpg.

It is not as good a demo sample as one can achieve, simply because I used a very old, outdated roll of K40 to test my Quarz camera. Still, by manipulating it in this way, I got a fine "old school" look which goes along well with this little film.

To my opinion shooting in K40 and then do a B/W in postprocessing does result in a nice B/W quality.

[Freya]

K40 is apparently actually a black and white film stock to which colour is added with a special startch dye layer or something wierd??

love

Freya

[Marius]

Can u cross-process K-40 film, if yes, were and how? 16mm film which is cross-processed looks so beautiful and so good!

[David M. Leugers]

Have you ever tried shooting Plus-X? Its quite a fine grained and
beautiful film. My favorite S8 stock.

Amen! It looks superb projected and will make very beautiful prints. I think 16mm prints can look even better that the original when projected. I have not made S-8mm prints, but I'd bet they would have the same results. Just a classy film stock and often overlooked today.

David M. Leugers