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Introduction
A small firm with the identify of Silbersalz35 from Stuttgart is providing repacked Kodak Imaginative and prescient 3 cinema movie for use in atypical nonetheless images 35mm cameras. They provide 4 completely different movies: 50D, 200T, 250D and 500T which I all tried. There are some quirks – but additionally lots to love – so let’s have a better look.
Silbersalz35
In a number of phrases: the blokes at Silbersalz35 take certainly one of these 35mm cinema movie rolls, cuts it into items and repacks these smaller components into typical 35mm movie canisters with DX coding.
For the event – to be able to get greatest outcomes with this movie – the ECN-2 course of is required, which is far more difficult and dear than the generally used C-41 course of. And it’s laborious to seek out somebody who can do it.
So once you purchase these movies (~21€/roll in 03/22) not solely the event but additionally 21.4mp 16-bit scanning with a claimed 13 stops of dynamic vary is included within the bundle.
This makes it a fairly whole lot in comparison with different top quality movies – if you happen to don’t wish to deal with growth and scanning your self (I don’t).
For extra particulars additionally take a look on the Silbersalz35 FAQ.
Working with Cinema Movie
Working with cinema movie is sort of completely different to regular inventory images movie. The latter is supposed to offer you a definite, punchy look out of the field – which I’m certain is why it appeals to many individuals: fancy wanting footage with out having to edit them first.
Cinema movie then again is extra like capturing digital: you get a fairly flat picture that you could coloration grade in put up for it to yield the look you want. You’ll be able to consider it a bit like capturing with a logarithmic profile however together with your analogue digicam.
This results in a comparably excessive dynamic vary and – not like digital – with movie there’s extra data saved within the highlights versus the shadows, so to seize most of that dynamic vary it is strongly recommended to overexpose by about 1 cease. That is already mirrored within the DX coding.
My Leica M6 doesn’t care about DX coding, I shot the movies like this:
50D – ISO25
200T – ISO125
250D – ISO160
500T – ISO400
It’d sound unappealing at first that you just shoot analogue and nonetheless need to edit your footage, subsequently every image you’ll get in 3 variations:
- Ungraded 16-bit Uncooked Scan in JPEG2000 (14 MB every)
- Graded 16-bit JPEG2000 (30 MB every)
- Graded JPEG (2 MB every)
The final two look the identical, whereas the ungraded Uncooked scan would positively want quite a lot of work to be usable.
However ultimately, as is the case with each JPEG file, it’s as much as you to determine if you’re already pleased with what the JPEG engine (which on this case is the Silbersalz35 workforce) gave you, or if you wish to use the RAW recordsdata to edit them to your liking.
Sadly Lightroom doesn’t assist JPEG2000 recordsdata, so that you first need to convert them to TIFF, which is able to considerably improve their filesize to 64 MB every. I nonetheless have to determine the best way to take care of this sooner or later, however for me utilizing the graded JPEG2000s hardly offers me something over utilizing the JPEGs, as will be seen from this instance:
So I suppose I can’t convert something to TIFF however as an alternative preserve the smaller JPEG2000s – in case I could ever want them sooner or later – however primarily work with the atypical JPEGs, which can also be what I did for all the photographs you see right here on this article.
50D
The 50D is a gradual daylight movie and to be sincere it has been my least favourite of the bunch. It reveals the bottom quantity of grain (which was to be anticipated) and excessive decision although, so I can nonetheless advocate it for panorama/structure capturing or taking portraits with quick lenses to permit for shallow depth of area throughout day hours – with out having to make use of ND filters.
The colours of this movie didn’t really feel overly punchy to me. In fact this may be adjusted in put up to some extent.
Within the following scenes I might have most popular having a sooner movie loaded to the digicam, however that is the way it goes.
200T
The 200T is the slower of the 2 Tungsten movies. It offers very likable colours at nighttime and through the blue hour, but additionally the colours within the daylight footage look surprisingly interesting to me, so this ended up being my favourite of the 4 movies.
250D
The 250D is the sooner daylight movie. It felt to me a bit just like the “allrounder” within the line up and I even have the sensation it has a very excessive dynamic vary.
500T
The 500T is the quickest movie and just like the 200T a sensible choice if you wish to take footage through the blue hour with out a sturdy coloration solid. Because of its increased pace it’s clearly additionally the only option amongst these movies if you wish to shoot indoors or in darker environments with out a tripod.
The upper sensitivity of this movie additionally makes it tempting to shoot in conditions the place there’s unhealthy and little mild to start with.
Impressions
Movies meant for use for Tungsten mild are very uncommon to come across as of late, so I discover the 2 Tungsten movies right here particularly interesting. In the event you nonetheless have a set of coloration filters matching your lenses this won’t be essential to you although.
The 200T and 250D present a bit increased grain than comparable nonetheless images movies, so if you happen to care extra about low grain than a excessive dynamic vary there is perhaps higher movies for you on the market.
The entire course of can also be a bit completely different right here. On the very least it’s important to crop the photographs they ship you and it actually helps to know a bit about primary uncooked growth as properly – I didn’t need to fiddle with the recordsdata greater than I’ve to with any Uncooked file from a contemporary digital digicam although – perhaps much less really.
Additionally, the Silbersalz35 scans are one of the best scans I’ve encountered thus far. They really really feel like 20 mp and never like 2-4 mp precise decision blown as much as 20 mp recordsdata, as could be very usually the case.
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There are extra footage taking with these movies in Half 4 of this sequence.
Extra components from this sequence
My identify is Bastian and I’m your skilled right here in terms of extremely broad angle lenses, tremendous quick portrait lenses (starting from a 50mm f/0.95 to a 200mm f/1.8) and I even have reviewed approach too many 35mm lenses.
Do not ask me something about macro or wildlife capturing although.
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