film stocks

[Matias Nicolas]

Hi! Which is the best film stock in 35mm to shoot today? what do you recommend ..  Cause I got a shooting in 35mm.. 

[Joerg Polzfusz]

B&W? Color? Reversal? Negative?

[Tyler Purcell]

2 hours ago, Matias Nicolas said:

Hi! Which is the best film stock in 35mm to shoot today? what do you recommend ..  Cause I got a shooting in 35mm.. 

The industry really only uses the four main Kodak Vision stocks. There are no other commercial stocks available for color negative today. 

What stock you use, is really based on the sensitivity range and grain structure. It's pretty self explanatory which stocks would have more sensitivity and less grain. There are only four to chose from ranging from 50D to 500T. It's not like the past where you had choices. 

 

[Matias Nicolas]

5 hours ago, Joerg Polzfusz said:

B&W? Color? Reversal? Negative?

Color..

[Matias Nicolas]

3 hours ago, Tyler Purcell said:

The industry really only uses the four main Kodak Vision stocks. There are no other commercial stocks available for color negative today. 

What stock you use, is really based on the sensitivity range and grain structure. It's pretty self explanatory which stocks would have more sensitivity and less grain. There are only four to chose from ranging from 50D to 500T. It's not like the past where you had choices. 

 

ok, so 500T is ok .. if shhoting daylight just an 85 filter on camera

[Charles MacDonald]

3 hours ago, Matias Nicolas said:

ok, so 500T is ok .. if shhoting daylight just an 85 filter on camera

it will work, But in your pre-planing figure out what sort of light you expect to have. All Sunny Days, you will have more control with 50D.  Studio inside, that is where 500T will shine.

Mostly outside well 200D might be what you need, with a few ND filters on hand to let you open the lens wwhere youwant the backgrounds to fall out of focus...  and 200T will also work with the all important 85 filter. if you need to shoot in both places.

some productions do just use the 500T with a set of the various 85N2, 85N3 filters as needed.

 

[Karim D. Ghantous]

2 hours ago, Charles MacDonald said:

some productions do just use the 500T with a set of the various 85N2, 85N3 filters as needed.

 

It's worth mentioning that if you use only one stock, you might have less film left over afterwards. So it might be a little cheaper and less complicated. And more efficient.

[Aapo Lettinen]

If you can use modern led lighting then the 250D is often most versatile stock for narrative work and gives almost the same sensitivity than 500T+85 filter but is easier to store and shoot and has less grain. If shooting in very bright conditions I often shoot 50D as general stock and it is often cheapest option too.

Tungsten stocks are nowadays mainly for situations where you absolutely must have 3200K balance. If using leds you get much better colours with daylight balanced stock so if I had to use tungsten balanced stock it would be with real tungsten lights and if shooting something like fire which cannot be controlled temp wise

[Jay Young]

Once somewhere here there was discussion about using an 85 filter or not.  The conclusion was that while technically the density changes between the two options are different, if you don't need exact color critical exposure then not using the filter can easily be corrected in DI.  Sounds like you are set to use filtration, so not something you need to worry about.

[Tyler Purcell]

21 hours ago, Matias Nicolas said:

ok, so 500T is ok .. if shhoting daylight just an 85 filter on camera

Depends on the look you're going after, most of my friends use 81's these days.