Grain, Grain, More Grain, and Even More Grain. Oh Wait, There's Even More Grain! 5294 Pushed to its Limit. Probably Beyond. Way Beyond.

[Ludwig Hagelstein]

In short: A little experiment: Take 5294 Ektachrome, processed as a Neg in ECN-2, pushed 4 stops, basically until completion at this point - for science ;)... I was surprised it yielded a color image after all. Brace for impact with some heavy grain though: 

 

Kodak 5294 / E.I. 1000 

Edited December 7, 2022 by Ludwig Hagelstein

[Ludwig Hagelstein]

Here's a crop of the absolutely horrible blotchy mess of film grain. 

[Ludwig Hagelstein]

Here's a second crop with some finer detail. 

[Phillip Mosness]

It's all in the eye of the beholder. I find the grain level to be rather appealing in the same way I like the see the texture in a pencil drawing.

Do you happen to remember the stop / shutter speed ?

[Karim D. Ghantous]

Not bad for four stops given that it's Ektachrome.

[Robert Houllahan]

Looks good to me!

[Ludwig Hagelstein]

7 hours ago, Phillip Mosness said:

It's all in the eye of the beholder. I find the grain level to be rather appealing in the same way I like the see the texture in a pencil drawing.

Do you happen to remember the stop / shutter speed ?

The aperture was defniitely wide open, at 2.8, and I'd say from the blurry finger the time was below 1/30. The next step is to see how it will look in motion ?

[David Sekanina]

Just to get an idea of the grain size relative to the negative size, are these full frame 35mm stills or frames from a super 35 motion picture camera , or S16 motion picture camera?

Thank you

[Ludwig Hagelstein]

1 hour ago, David Sekanina said:

Just to get an idea of the grain size relative to the negative size, are these full frame 35mm stills or frames from a super 35 motion picture camera , or S16 motion picture camera?

Thank you

 

Should have clarified. For this first test I used a 35mm stills camera. The resulting neg is 24x36, or in other terms an 8-Perf Vistavision image. 

[Tyler Purcell]

Very nice! I dig!

[Phil Rhodes]

Okay, for full frame that is fairly crunchy.

Do we assume it was exposed for 1000, give or take the gradual failure of extreme pushing to achieve the theoretical increase it should?