Sunday, April 28, 2024

Atlanta Film Co. 500T (Kodak Vision3) Film developed in C-41

 I was given a couple of rolls of AFC 500T months ago, but only had shot one roll as I really don't like tungsten-balanced film outdoors. I finally had a good reason to use this film - visiting the National Corvette Museum in January 2024. I only just now (April 27 2024) developed this film with fresh chemicals.

However, I used C-41 chemicals with a baking soda pre-wash for the remjet, not the ECN-2 process as intended. I think C-41 works fairly well for this film, but you can be the judge.





By way of example, this is the "best" I was able to get scanning a 500T negative shot in daylight. I had to wrench around the colors quite a bit. I'm sure with time and effort one can get better scans, but IMO keep the tungsten film for indoor lights or warm white string lights, as it was designed to handle.



On the same roll, here is a night shot with Christmas lights in Dahlonega, which are "tungsten" balanced, except for one daylight-balanced flood they used on the Gold Museum (why oh why did you do this??):





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