If Kodak would return one filmstock from the past...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri May 14, 2004 8:29 pm

If Kodak would return one filmstock from the past, which one would you want? Magnetically prestriped Super 8 ?

Vote here: http://www.cinematography.com/forum2004 ... f=9&t=1008

Post by **Basstruc** » Sat May 15, 2004 2:03 am

If the question ask would be : If you could return one filmstock from the past, which one would you want?

Of Course : AUTOCHROME !!!
Unbelievable that anybody did arrived to reproduce this 100 years old emulsion.

Post by **cineandy** » Sat May 15, 2004 10:50 am

It has to be k25, the finest film ever made, hang on, kodachrome 2 i understand was better than k25. So kII gets my vote then.

Post by **monobath** » Sat May 15, 2004 6:24 pm

Super XX sheet film, especially in 8x10 and larger please.

But I guess you mean movie film stock. I don't have enough experience to say, having only shot K40 and Plus-X and Tri-X. When I look at old B&W movies, though, I see some that strike me as having an orthochromatic look with the lack of red sensitivity. I like that look.

Post by BK » Sun May 16, 2004 6:08 am

I'll be greedy! KII in a sound cartridge please.

Bill

Post by **Herb Montes** » Sun May 16, 2004 5:37 pm

Speaking for 16mm film users, maybe...ECO?

I heard so many good things about it I was annoyed when it was replaced by VNF by the time I got to working in 16mm.

Post by **Angus** » Sun May 16, 2004 7:06 pm

K II in sound carts....though if I understand the timing correctly that technically wouldn't be a stock from the past because K II was scrapped in 1973 and sound carts were introduced in 1974.

I'd really love to see Agfa make super 8 film again to be honest...I still wonder what THEY did with their sound striping machine.

Post by **Carlos 8mm** » Sun May 16, 2004 8:01 pm

Not exactly Kodak,
I wanna see again Ferrania ISO 25 color reversal stock (very fine grain but a little bilt blued) and Ferrania ISO 40 B&W stock , very sharp and high contrast film stock.

Carlos.

Post by **David M. Leugers** » Sun May 16, 2004 9:13 pm

I wanna see again Ferrania ISO 25 color reversal stock (very fine grain but a little bilt blued) and Ferrania ISO 40 B&W stock , very sharp and high contrast film stock.

Me too, as I believe the ISO 25 color reversal was sold here in the USA in KMart stores as Focal movie film or 3M movie film. I was only able to shoot a few rolls before they disappeared from the shelves, but it had a very unique pallet. Beautiful and very different from Kodachrome and grainier, but not in a bad way.

I personally feel a major loss when Kodak quit making pre-striped 16mm reversal print stock. This allowed the small time film maker to produce a film and then transfer magnetic sound onto the print via a 16mm mag sound projector. I did several home movies for my family this way. Not only did it allow me to afford it, the mag sound was far better than optical sound.

David M. Leugers

Post by **Carlos 8mm** » Mon May 17, 2004 5:31 pm

Talking about Ferrania, hereÃ‚Â´s an extract from a 18 x 24 mm photo slide taken in 1963 with an Olimpus Pen camera:

http://www.8mm.filmshooting.com/scripts ... usins_1963

It is noticeable the blued coloration.

Carlos.

Post by **camera_wizard** » Tue May 18, 2004 12:36 am

K II in sound carts....though if I understand the timing correctly that technically wouldn't be a stock from the past because K II was scrapped in 1973 and sound carts were introduced in 1974.

Then why does the manual for my sound camera have a picture of a KII sound cart?
Not Kodak, but personaly I would like to see the old Technicolor process that classics like "The Wizard of OZ" were made on.
Or Ectachrome type G film, for when I dont know wheather the lighting is tungsten or daylight.
Or anything in sound carts.

Not a stok ever made, but Technicolor type G in sound carts. Not feseable because Technicolor is a three-strip process.