Rendering profile
- Sharpness
- medium-high
- Color biases
- tungsten balanced, cool daylight without correction
- Tags
- cinema, night, tungsten, ecn2
- Best use cases
- night street photography, indoor available light, cinematic portraits
Film stock wiki
Kodak Vision3 500T
Kodak Vision3 500T is a tungsten-balanced high-speed motion picture color negative film used for low-light and cinematic still photography.
Key specs
- Brand
- Kodak
- Model
- Vision3 500T
- ISO
- 500
- Process
- ECN2
- Formats
- 135
- Production status
- In production
Grain
moderate
Contrast
low-medium
Saturation
medium
Latitude
very wide
Technical details
- Film base
- motion picture acetate
- Push/pull
- Push processing is lab-dependent and increases contrast and grain.
Handling notes
- Exposure
- Use an 85 filter for daylight if neutral color is desired.
- Development
- Process in ECN-2 with remjet handling.
- Scanning
- Color balance depends heavily on lighting and filter choice.
Profile notes
Vision3 500T is designed for tungsten light but is often used creatively in mixed light and night scenes. It has broad latitude and requires ECN-2 processing for normal results.
Aliases
500T5219
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