KODAK VISION 800T Color Negative Film / 5289 / 7289

• Base
• Darkroom Recommendations
• Processing
• Storage
• Exposure Index
• Laboratory Aim Density
• Color Balance
• Post-Production Information
• Reciprocity
• Identification
• Grain
• Sharpness
• Diffuse RMS Granularity Curves
• Modulation-Transfer Curves
• Sensitometric Curves
• Spectral-Sensitivity Curves
• Spectral Dye Peaks
• Standard Products Available

The film you wished for

Here's the film you wished for...for those times when you need to dig deeper into the shadows...when you'd like the sky to hold the daylight just a little bit longer...when you want more play in the depth of field. Now there's KODAK VISION 800T Color Negative Film. With an exposure index of 800 in tungsten light, this is the world's fastest color negative motion picture film--a film worthy of the KODAK VISION Film family name. It delivers the speed and latitude you need; the color reproduction that enables you to intercut it seamlessly with other Kodak film products; and the sharpness and grain structure you would expect only in products of a slower speed.

So, use the speed for any purpose you choose. To use ambient light as fill. To capture fast action. To manipulate your exposure. To increase the depth of field. To work longer into the magic hour. And do it all without compromise because you are working with a KODAK VISION Film.

Of course, this film (like other members of the family of KODAK VISION Films) is made in the most advanced Kodak sensitizing complex in the world. So you can trust its consistency--emulsion to emulsion, roll to roll, batch to batch. And, because it's from Kodak, it's available when you need it, where you need it, virtually everywhere in the world.

KODAK VISION 800T Color Negative Film. In gold cans, with scannable bar codes, and peelable labels. Fast. Flexible. And a proud new member of the Kodak motion picture film family for filmmakers who need to turn wishes into reality.

Base

Acetate safety base with rem-jet backing.

Darkroom Recommendations

Do not use a safelight. Handle unprocessed film in total darkness.

Processing

ECN-2

Storage

Store unexposed film at 13C (55F) or lower. For storage of unexposed film longer than 6 months, store at -18C (0F). Process film promptly.

Exposure Index

Tungsten (3200 K)--800; Daylight (5500 K)--500 (with KODAK WRATTEN Gelatin Filter No. 85)

Laboratory Aim Density

Time negative originals relative to Laboratory Aim Density (LAD)

Control Film supplied by Eastman Kodak Company.

Color Balance

This film is balanced for exposure with tungsten illumination (3200 K). You can also expose it with tungsten lamps that have slightly higher or lower color temperature (± 150 K) without correction filters, since final color balancing can be done in printing. For other light sources, use the correction filters in the table below.

*These are approximate corrections only. Make final corrections during printing.

Post-Production Information

When you transfer this film directly to video, set up the telecine using negative Telecine Analysis Film (TAF) for use with all KODAK VISION and EXR Negative Films (except KODAK PRIMETIME 640T Teleproduction Film).

Reciprocity

No filter corrections or exposure adjustments for exposure times from 1/1000 of a second to 1 second. If your exposure is in the 10-second range, increase exposure 2/3 stop.

Identification

After processing, the Kodak internal product code symbol (R), product code numbers 5289 (35 mm) or 7289 (16mm), emulsion and roll number identification, and EASTMAN KEYKODE Numbers are visible along the length of the film.

Grain

The "perception" of graininess of any film depends on scene content, complexity, color, and density. Other factors, such as film age, processing, exposure conditions, and telecine transfer may also have significant effects.

Sharpness

The "perceived" sharpness of any film depends on various components of the motion picture production system. The camera and projector lenses and film printers, and other factors, play a role. But the specific sharpness of a film can be measured and charted in the Modulation-Transfer Curve.

DIFFUSE RMS GRANULARITY CURVES

To find the rms granularity value for a given density, find the density on the left vertical scale and follow horizontally to the sensitometric curve and then go vertically (up or down) to the granularity curve. At that point, follow horizontally to the Granularity Sigma D scale on the right. Read the number and multiply by 1000 for the rms value.

MODULATION-TRANSFER CURVES

This graph shows a measure of the visual sharpness of this film. The x-axis, "Spatial Frequency," refers to the number of sine waves per millimetre that can be resolved. The y-axis, "Response," corresponds to film sharpness. The longer and flatter the line, the more sine waves per millimetre that can be resolved with a high degree of sharpness--and, the sharper the film.

SENSITOMETRIC CURVES

The center point ("N") on the x-axis corresponds to a normal exposure of an 18-percent gray card in the red, green, and blue layers of this film. To determine optimum lighting levels for your particular production, shoot an exposure series and establish the density of a normally exposed 18-percent gray card. Use the sensitometric curves to estimate density changes caused by altered exposure conditions. Note that a one stop exposure change corresponds to a 0.3 log exposure change to the film, and a change of 0.025 in density is approximately equal to one printer light in laboratory color timing.

SPECTRAL-SENSITIVITY CURVES

These curves depict the sensitivity of this film to the spectrum of light. They are useful for adjusting optical printers and film recorders and for determining, modifying, and optimizing exposure for blue- and green-screen special-effects work.

SPECTRAL DYE PEAKS

The net negative densities for the cyan dye curve are a natural consequence of the level of the magenta masking coupler. The level was chosen to give flat correction averaged over a range of wavelengths--there will be a slight overcorrection at some wavelengths and a slight undercorrection at others.

STANDARD PRODUCTS AVAILABLE

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