Types and Technical Data
It makes good sense to work with a limited range of well-chosen films. You get to know their performance intimately – what each can contribute to your particular style of picture, its response to different subject situations and, when necessary, just how far you can abuse the film before results become unacceptable. …
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Understanding Film …The Basics
Film is, very simply, a light-sensitive emulsion on a plastic base. An easy way to think of film is to compare it with bread and butter. Think of the bread as the base, the butter as the emulsion. When you hold this combination in your hand, what you feel and see is mostly bread, the base – not butter, the emulsion. The base (bread) holds and supports the emulsion (butter), the active part of the film. …
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Film Speed and Grain
How sensitive a film is to light, that is, how much it reacts to a given quantity of light, is indicated by its film speed. The more sensitive-or faster-the film, the higher its number in the rating system. …
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Effects of Exposure
Effects of exposure and development on normal contrast, silver-image monochrome film…
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B&W Negative Exposure Errors
IMAGE AREA: Thin negatives. (Snow scenes, beach scenes, and areas with a lot of brightness.)
EDGE AREA: Normal
FAULT: Underexposure. Exposure meters average an exposure to a mid grey tone.
CAUSE / PREVENTION: When photographing scenes that are very bright overall give one to two-stops more exposure than the meter recommends. …
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Colour Films
Colour Negative Film – Most choice of film speeds in 35mm and roll film (from ISO 100 to 1000).
Colour Transparency Film – Colour films designed to give direct positive images are given the suffix chrome (rather than co/orused for negative film).
Instant Colour Prints/Polaroids – Wide range of sizes from 31/4 x 3 318 in to 10 x 8 in. …
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A Word on Colour…
Most people’s experience of colour film will be buying a colour negative daylight balanced film. This means the image goes onto the negative film and then is reversed into a positive colour image in the printing process. …
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Introduction to Basic Scanning
When scanning you should always ask yourself, what is the end result I am looking for? This will determine some of the setting for the scanner right at the beginning of the process. …
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Film Record Sheet
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