Minolta93
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I did a color test of 3383 in daylight, filtered through a pack of Yellow 8, 85B, and a piece of cleared c-41 film base and developed C-41. The results are what you'd expect shooting hand-held bulb exposure macro on a windy day, but a direct reversal of the negatives yields close to lifelike color, maybe even a touch too warm. Film speed didn't seem to be impacted by filtering as much as I thought it would, but confirming that would take something a bit more scientific.
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Edit: and a more carefully adjusted single frame from above. The yellow 8 filter definitely isn't needed. The amount of warming for more accurate color rendering is probably somewhere between a regular 85 and the 85b+C-41 base combo depending on cloud cover / season / daylight color temperature.
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Most folks would probably be better off with Vision3 and an ND filter but maybe developing in CD-2 will boost it's appeal as a slide.
Next I'll try contact printing c-41 & ecn-2 negatives directly onto the 3383 and process in C-41. The film base plus an incandescent light source seems just about the right color temperature. So far, I'm convinced that the only way to get a fully analog positive image out of this stock is to start with a negative, as designed.
I would like to see the results of contact printing as intended when you get around to it.