Nervous about shooting Ektachrome 7240

[plattino]

Hey Super 8'ers.

I am finishing up a film project currently and since K40 is currently back ordered I had to go with Ektachrome 7240 for our pickup footage. Now we are using other Ektachrome Type G for a nastalgic look and its no biggy that the Ektachrome has much higher grain than the K40. Here is my question, I was browsing the web page for that new pressure plate and came across this quote from the guy that was giving a review on the website:

"If you wish to work with the Ektachrome 7240, you simply can't do it without this additional pressure plate."

So now I'm worried that my Ektachrome might come out just as jittery or crappy as the defective K40 everyone is discovering in thier film batches.

Do I need to worry about shooting 7240 and getting decent stable images?

[#Pedro]

I would say, when the cart is o.k., the result will depend a lot of how your camera is working. Up to now, I never?ve had jitter with VNF. I only know, that the thinner VNF film is more sensitive and tends to jitter with bad adjusted film gates...
Pedro

[Matt Pacini]

Regardless of the jitter situation, Ektachrome Super 8 looks like **** , and will NOT intercut well with you K-40.
The fleshtones look horrible, it's really grainy, it's not sharp.... hve I made my point?

Matt Pacini

[plattino]

I agree Matt, but like I mentioned before we were looking for a slightly older "nostalgic" look to the film which included the need for a little more grain level. All the K40 I had transferred via Roger's DV-8 looked almost too clean for my project. The type G Ektachrome we shot with also looks like **** and so I think its necessary to use more Ektachrome in order to balance out the ratio. I think the K40s grain structure is beautiful and also can't really believe it turned out "too clean" for the project's look. I use Final Cut's color corrector to balance out the poopy greens of Ektachrome stock. [img]graemlins/film.gif[/img] [img]cool.gif[/img]

[Levi]

Does ektachrome really look that bad? Could someone post a still so I can get an idea of what it looks like?

Thanks,
Corey

[Konton]

Not the be negative about Ektachome, but last year I used a few cartridges for my camera. Now I don't know what's up with my camera, but with Ektachrome and Tri-X I lost registation. With Nagative and Kodachome I was fine. I'm also curious if that pressure plate would make a difference. If anyone buys one let me know.

[Vespasian]

Yeah but the best thing about Ektachrome VNF has gotta be that you can develope it in your bathroom.

[Matt Pacini]

OK, here's the comparison between K-40 and Ektachrome.

http://www.blackforestentertainment....1/Parrish1.jpg

www.blackforestentertainment.com/MiscImages1/Kelly&Heather.jpg


The first link above, is of the K-40, which was shot outdoors, about 30-60 minutes before sundown, after the sun had gone behind a building. No bounce light, I was shooting in the shadows, basically.
It was right in the red zone of my in-camera meter, like about F1.4

The Ektachrome, however was shot in a lit room, with sunlight coming in from the windows.
I shot it at F2.8, which should be MUCH sharper, because that's in a sharper part of the lens.
So if anything, conditions were favoring the Ektachrome.

Both were shot with a Nikon R-10.

If you can ignore the beauty of two girls kissing, and concentrate on just the image quality itself(!) you will notice that the Ektachrome is grainy as **** , with a lack of sharpness.
I can certainly provide more images if anyone is not convinced of how inferior Ektachrome is, compared to Kodachrome.

There has been no enhancement of any kind on these images.

Matt Pacini