Exposing Ektachrome

[Matt Pacini]

Kodak discontinued Ektachrome 160 about 3 years ago, and replaced it with 125.

I' pretty sure that all Super 8 cameras that can't select ASA manually (like the Beaulieu's) are thinking the ASA125 is actually ASA160, and therefor overexposing.
It's certainly not a whole stop though.

Ektachrome Super 8 looks so crappy, that it probably doesn't matter anyway...

Matt Pacini

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[jefury]

It may look crappy to some, but I like it.

But it all depends on what you want. The mood of what you wanna film. I needed a higher speed film in the first place because my filter was broken, and I wanted high grain anyway.

But, you may not want that. So perhaps you can go for K40 - fine grain, great colours, and stuff.

Ask Matt, he's an expert on this stuff. Perhaps he's told you about his feature "Lost Tribes" and Ektachrome.

By the way Matt, would you have any sample footage from "Lost Tribes"?

Thanks/goodluck

Jeff
(Amateur film maker wanna-be)



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[#Pedro]

I actually shot VNF 125 stock in a simple Canon 514XL camera with automatical reading. It comes out a little bit underexposed, but quite tolerable, as far as the exposure is concerned. THe camera is reading 160 ASA and closing the stop as it was an 160 ASA film. Therefore a stock with only 125 ASA gets less light and underexposed. As most cheap cameras tend to overexpose in order to achieve bright results in dim porjectors, the VNF 125 just becomes perfectly exposed in standard cameras. But the image quality is bullshit and only suitable for night shots.

Pedro

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[SuperDork]

It was explained to me at a Super 8 workshop, that most Super 8 cameras can't actually "read" the notch size for 125.

Consequently, the camera reads over or under 125.

Many filmmakers routinely over-expose this film by one stop.

Can anyone tell me what their experiences have been?

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