Chloe Charlton Posted December 27, 2021 Share Posted December 27, 2021 Hi everyone, I've heard that you can film with print stock and just wondered what ISO I would shoot at? Looking at purchasing Orwo stock PF2 https://www.orwouk.com/orwo-pf2-16mm-and-35mm-b-w-print-film Any experience tips would be much appreciated! Thanks :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Simon Wyss Posted December 27, 2021 Premium Member Share Posted December 27, 2021 Very good idea! Lab stocks aren’t manufactured to a reproducable exposure index, they’re just made, so the batches vary somewhat in speed. Labs then bracket in on a given batch. You can assume ISO 8 to 10. Trial and error will tell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Frank Wylie Posted December 27, 2021 Premium Member Share Posted December 27, 2021 Do yourself a favor and if you shoot on lab stock for any serious work, shoot a chip chart on the head of the roll for each roll to allow for the variations that Simon notes. When we do emulsion batch changes on film stock in processing, we do what is called a "crossover" test that allows us to match the incoming stock emulsion batch to the outgoing one to maintain our lab-wide settings. A color chip chart would at least give a colorist a baseline correction to bring all the rolls to a uniform, neutral start before grading the entire lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chloe Charlton Posted December 28, 2021 Author Share Posted December 28, 2021 Amazing, thanks so much for this! Really helpful ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Duncan Brown Posted January 11, 2022 Premium Member Share Posted January 11, 2022 Keep in mind that is orthochromatic film (blue sensitive) - cool, in that you can handle it under a safelight, but may not give the look you want when filming stuff out in the world. Their duplicating film would give you all the good and bad points of that print stock, but is panchromatic: https://www.orwouk.com/dp-31 Also worth pointing out the usual warning that running polyester-based stocks in a camera can cause issues because it doesn't tear if there's a jam. (This warning always comes up as a theoretical; I have never actually seen a story of a camera damaged in this way.) Duncan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dennis Toeppen Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 (edited) On 1/10/2022 at 8:45 PM, Duncan Brown said: Keep in mind that is orthochromatic film (blue sensitive) - cool, in that you can handle it under a safelight, but may not give the look you want when filming stuff out in the world. Their duplicating film would give you all the good and bad points of that print stock, but is panchromatic: https://www.orwouk.com/dp-31 Also worth pointing out the usual warning that running polyester-based stocks in a camera can cause issues because it doesn't tear if there's a jam. (This warning always comes up as a theoretical; I have never actually seen a story of a camera damaged in this way.) Duncan Which is 3383? Thanks. Edited January 14, 2022 by Dennis Toeppen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Premium Member Duncan Brown Posted January 14, 2022 Premium Member Share Posted January 14, 2022 3383 is a color print film, a whole different ball of wax than the B&W lab films the OP is talking about. It's going to have no orange mask which could be a good or bad thing to have in a negative depending on what you're doing. Or process it as reversal film and get some weirdness. Duncan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pablo Cruz Villalba Posted January 14, 2022 Share Posted January 14, 2022 What's the best way to develop 3383? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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