The new ectachrome professional film can be developed as a negative. This eliminates the orange mask problem and the remjet problem since ectachrome does not have carbon black remjet.
Paul Cotto
jusetan wrote:
Technically the "negative" film image is simply in transparent CMY colorspace and we're doing a CMY to RGB conversion, but it's the same as a logical "negative" in most photoediting programs (-- unless you have the photographic orange mask to deal with, in which case it gets more complicated as you have to spectrally extract the mask.)
Well, seeing as most kodak negative motion picture stocks inherently have this orange masking to deal with.. it does become an issue. Reversal film, no orange, no problem. Negative film... oi.
So what is it that you are getting at when you say "spectrally" you can extract the mask? You've found a method that won't affect the other orange tones by keying it out somehow? There must be a simple solution as EVERY single transfer suite that i've ever dealt with for super16 has been able to just pop a switch and voila, no orange masking.
jusetan
Don't worry about equipment so much and make your movie!
