Reversal Film?

[ulrichsd]

> After you shoot a roll of reversal film
> and you want to project it, what do you do?
> Do you have to process it like negative film?

Yes.
The difference is that with negative, after processing you have a negative image. After processing reversal, you have a positive image (hence you can stick it in your projector and it looks normal). With negative, you have to make a positive print before viewing.

HTH,
Scott Ulrich

[nextspielberg]

Ok, so where do you get reversal film processed?

[chas_ucla]

Since you are in North Hollywood, you are not too far away from Yale Film and Video, located on Victory and Cahuenga

Here is their website: http://www.yalefilmandvideo.com/

For Kodachrome:

Dwayne's Photo
415 South 32nd Street
P.O. Box 274
Parsons, KS 67357
1-800-522-3940

[nextspielberg]

I'll phone the number. Thanks everyone for replying!

[Hanthx]

Dont forget you can take k40 to Walmart and they will process it for you for $4.88.
They send it to Dwaynes, as I stated earlier.

Good luck
Scott

[chas_ucla]

Not being able to afford RANK transfers, I project everything. There is something quite different about having people watch projected images vs. a video. Adds an element ... more than just nostalgia, I'd say...

[Nigel]

To get back to the post.

1. Reversal films will have more saturated colors. That is why so many if not most professional still photographers shoot chromes.

2. Reversal films have less latitude. They tend to have a stop to a stop and a half where as Neg. can have a dynamic stop range of 10 to 12(+5/-5 either side of normal.)

3. Kodachrome goes through a B/W developer first then like Pedro said the color is added via dyes. This is why like Technicolor Kodachrome will last 100 years(Sorry Digital can't do that).

4. As for the Ektachrome VNF 7240--the reason it "Looks Like TV" as Pedro said is because the film is designed for RANK Xfer to tape and TV broadcast. It can also be the fact that most people filter it with an 85 that is in their camera when it needs an 85B.

Shoot whatever you can get your hands on. I like Kodachrome myself. It is nice to know that we have Vision 200T also.

[aeroplaneflyhigh]

walmart really does do super 88 film. Do all of them do it??

[Hanthx]

Yes, they do.

Walmart employees don't know, they won't have a clue about what your talking about, but just fill out an envelope, and in the special instrutions area write "movie film"
and drop in the box. Come back two weeks later, and pick it up. At the drop off box, look at the chart, it will state movie film.
Just tell them when you come to pick it up, it was a two week send out, so they don't get so confused. Remeber, its only Kodachrome 40 that is applicable.

Scott