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Alright, Reala 100 without a doubt, just the most gorgeous reproduction of greens Agfa Ultra 50 Ektar 25 Provia 400X E100VS Fortia HIE in MF or bigger (35mm just doesn't cut the mustard with its poor resolution) Panatomic X APX 25

Personally, no specific budget is set. I shoot as I desire but exactly what the stock chosen is often is weighed more by how easily it is to get more, be it cost or scarcity, than it is by the specific subject matter. Though I am near on 40 rolls in this year, mostly E6/C41, so perhaps I'm not...

CD-4 makes broader hues with couplers than narrower ones achieved with CD-3. As-is CD-4 are less stable due to the stronger polar properties. There is an actual twisting action that takes place and that doesn't occur with CD-3 so different hues being produced and other chemical differences would...

Indeed it is Portra 400 just with motion AHU. This has been a known quantity for some time

Hi David, do you still have the Ektachrome? how has it been stored?

A local place for you would be Rewind, control strips ran twice per day. You'll be fine

Any archival facility will echo the woes of vinegar syndrome. The film shrinks and twists, and smells pretty nasty of course. Vinegar syndrome can occur after 20 years of poor storage, but can even happen much sooner than that if the batch of material is of poor quality/stability. After 40...

PET may have it's downsides, but for archivability and dimensional stability, it beats acetate with ease. Not having to see my film develop vinegar syndrome is a big enough plus for me alone to rather put up with PET's curl issues. Also, Kodak's switch to PET is partly because they make it...

Yep, the volume wasn't there a decade ago when he spoke about it, certainly isn't there now and on top of that all the film is very old. Kodachrome undergoes a magenta shift as it ages, even frozen stuff from the 2000's is going to be like that now

It wasn't so much it's theoretical zenith, more that Kodak didn't find the investment in updating the process viable and so for the last couple of decades Kodachrome wasn't updated whilst E6 saw massive change. It was an economical dead end, not a technical one. It does make me wonder what a...

He was using mostly original kodachrome chemistry (which came in tins mind you right to the very end) with an improvised yellow using the older 1930's patents. The issue today is expense, you can have chemical companies manufacture the colour couplers but be prepared to spend thousands of...

By sensitivity I was referring to the spectral sensitivity in the comment I was responding to, not the H&D curves. The H&D curves are quite different when compared, and you'd expect that when it is a cross processed stock. And to suggest that I am rumour spreading is naive, it is no big secret...

Indeed it is. I am surprised just how similar the overall sensitivity of the layers are, Note the ~0.5D difference between C41 and ECN2 making a drop in effective speed apparent. The real difference, as one might expect seeing as there is a different CD at play, is the cross overs in the h&d...

clip test at 100, 80 and 64. see how you go. if Dmax is a bit poor, pull one stop in processing and run another clip test at 50

I've shot HIE recently and can confirm what you say about the look and feel. Still, I was able to dry it fairly flat. Curl was worse than some films but not terrible