Steve Wallace Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 Click here to view my latest directorial effort, a music video for the Automatic Erasers' song - England Flies - shot entirely on Super 8. The film is Tri-X (7278) cross processed as negative, and the live performance footage was pushed 2 stops. The film was shot on location with all practical lighting, no movie lights were used. Cameras Eumig Nautica (24fps mod) Canon 301XL (1.0 lens) Post Lab: Niagara Custom Lab, Toronto, ON Canada Telecine : Cinelicious in Hollywood, CA USA Method: Direct to Drive, ProRes 422, Final Cut Pro SCREENINGS Salford Film Festival - Super 8 in a Digital World - Official Selection - Salford, United Kingdom - November 22, 2008 Cinesubsonica - Official Selection - Montpellier, France - TBD, 2009 If you would like this video to play at your festival or event, please contact me directly for more info. Also, if you use Digg, please digg the post, help spread the word that small gauge filmmaking is alive in 2009 Thanks to Justin at Frame Discreet, for his original blog on cross processing Tri-X, Sebastjan at NCL and Paul at Cinelicious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfeo Dixon Posted December 26, 2008 Share Posted December 26, 2008 Just curious of what the effect you where looking for by crossing Tri-X. Most X-processing is for color shifting in to an abnormal color spectrum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Wallace Posted December 26, 2008 Author Share Posted December 26, 2008 Cross-processing as negative increases the overall latitude and by my estimation allows for 2 stops push processing better, at the expense of larger and courser grain structure. In film tests, x-proc pushed 2 stops revealed more of an image than processing as normal reversal in the same lighting scenario. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alfeo Dixon Posted December 27, 2008 Share Posted December 27, 2008 In film tests, x-proc pushed 2 stops revealed more of an image than processing as normal reversal in the same lighting scenario. by normal, you mean normal processing for reversal film, but still pushing 2 stops... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Wallace Posted December 27, 2008 Author Share Posted December 27, 2008 by normal, you mean normal processing for reversal film, but still pushing 2 stops... Correct. Also, I should add when you push TRI-X two stops it tends to get washed out from my experience. I think the choice to process as negative helped keep our contrast in check, despite the extremely low light. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yang Liu Posted December 28, 2008 Share Posted December 28, 2008 Correct. Also, I should add when you push TRI-X two stops it tends to get washed out from my experience. I think the choice to process as negative helped keep our contrast in check, despite the extremely low light. Good Job. I cross-processed Tri-x wedding footage in the same Lab, also in a extremely low light house, but I didn't push 2-stops, and it looked very dark, not enough details. So I guess when the film is under exposed, then cross-process , push 2-stops will make the image better? How about the 64T? I also cross-processed that,too. But I prefer the normal processed image looking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Wallace Posted December 28, 2008 Author Share Posted December 28, 2008 So I guess when the film is under exposed, then cross-process , push 2-stops will make the image better? Yes, I would say so. As long as you don't mind the coarseness and large grain. Although, if you develop as reversal and push two stops it also gets grainier, but less contrasty. How about the 64T? I also cross-processed that,too. But I prefer the normal processed image looking. I like the normal processing too. Unless you are going for unusual color shifts mentioned earlier in this thread. If you want the color shifts to be more extreme you can push this as well, but after 2 stops it kinda seems to turn to mush. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yang Liu Posted December 29, 2008 Share Posted December 29, 2008 Yes, I would say so. As long as you don't mind the coarseness and large grain. Although, if you develop as reversal and push two stops it also gets grainier, but less contrasty. I like the normal processing too. Unless you are going for unusual color shifts mentioned earlier in this thread. If you want the color shifts to be more extreme you can push this as well, but after 2 stops it kinda seems to turn to mush. I see,,,thanks. By the way, I have a Nikon 8x super zoom, there are some film speed number on it. Daylight: 10,16,25,40,64,100,160,250 Artificial Light:16,25,40,64,100,160,250,400 I haven't tested the Auto light meter, don't know if this camera can recoganize vision2 200T, vision2 500T? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Wallace Posted December 30, 2008 Author Share Posted December 30, 2008 (edited) I see,,,thanks. By the way, I have a Nikon 8x super zoom, there are some film speed number on it.Daylight: 10,16,25,40,64,100,160,250 Artificial Light:16,25,40,64,100,160,250,400 I haven't tested the Auto light meter, don't know if this camera can recoganize vision2 200T, vision2 500T? I'm not sure about that camera, but according to the super 8 wiki it looks like it will read 200 fine (maybe as 160), not sure about the 500 though? http://super8wiki.com/index.php/Nikon_8x_Super_Zoom i found that link at http://www.onsuper8.org Edited December 30, 2008 by Steve Wallace Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yang Liu Posted December 30, 2008 Share Posted December 30, 2008 I'm not sure about that camera, but according to the super 8 wiki it looks like it will read 200 fine (maybe as 160), not sure about the 500 though? http://super8wiki.com/index.php/Nikon_8x_Super_Zoom i found that link at http://www.onsuper8.org thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will Cummock Posted January 8, 2009 Share Posted January 8, 2009 mmm, cross processing tri-x. always something i've wanted to have a go at. i also really want to try cross processing plus-x in a pyro developer. i don't have time and i don't have tank but i have a theory that it would produce an exceptional image. any idea as to whether anyone has tried this before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Wallace Posted January 8, 2009 Author Share Posted January 8, 2009 I have not heard of anyone cross processing plus-x in this way. I guess it would be a matter of figuring out the speed, and the development times. Also, look online and see if its been done with still before, and work from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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