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Isn't the new AHU layer in Kodak cinema film something different than the anti-halation stuff in their C-41 still films though?

Apparently from the end credits of the first episode of season 3. Euphoria.

Well, what do I know. But there certainly has been rumors that there is a new Kodak cine stock based on an existing still film stock from insiders in cinematography circles over the past two years. Look at the second post here...

It seems to have crossover error in the highlights though. But I'm also skeptical. I would think archival stability could be a big concern. But I'm also not that knowledgeable in this area.

Yes, I'm also not completely sold. But I also know there were rumors during the last year or so, of people in the industry trying out an experimental Portra 400 modified to work in a cinema workflow. So I'm just going to wait and see. It will either way be a slightly different emulsion just...

A different look?

There is some speculation on reddit that it's basically Portra 400. I will follow with interest.

@mwde It’s a bit hard to decipher. I thought he was using both methods in the demo with multiple light sources, RGB LED (white iPad screen) and a 3-color scan (using iPad P3 1000-nit color patches, with a single sensor channel per exposure). But I might be interpreting that incorrectly. I’m...

I think I explained this a bit unclearly, since it’s a tricky effect to pin down. What I’m seeing isn’t just higher overall saturation (although narrowband RGB will definitely give a more saturated result than white light). It’s more that certain hues, especially reds and oranges, end up...

Nice to see some progress in this area. Are you doing anything to manage the saturation that seems to be a challenge with narrow band scanning? In my experience working with raw scans from Coolscans and Pakons the color separation tends to be too high and some colors can go a bit neon like...

Sound like your source files are not that dissimilar to mine actually. I don't know why it didn't give good results on your end. It uses the actual image to calculate the black and white points, you can read the whole pipeline here...

Interesting. How do you scan your film, camera scanning? For me it would give me C41 results that that's about as good as anything with tiffs from several different scanners. I didn't try ENC2 yet. Also, did you adjust the crop offset so there is no film borders visible? If there is anything...

There is a new open source application called NegPy available for Windows, Mac and Linux: https://github.com/marcinz606/NegPy The results are impressive and the app has seen several updates in just over a week since the first release. I've tried pretty much every app out there and this is...

Thanks for reporting back. Reading what you wrote, it seems to work differently than I expected. I thought the VM would just expose the to PCI bus to XP, and you still would have to have the native XP driver for the firewire card, but sounds like it is capable in of getting around this. The card...

Remember to install in compatibility mode. I think the actual firewire card/chip-set can have some influence on stability as well as they don't all seem to be created equal. That's why I went with an old mac mini for this as Apple was the "firewire company" back in the days, so I figured they...