Kodak planning to replace remjet on vision 3 films

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If Cinestill will indeed have access to Vision3 films with AHU the 250D will be film that I'd be least interested in. Portra 400 is better or at least as good, doesn't need ECN-2* developer and is not more expensive than Cinestill 400D. On the other hand there is nothing like 500T or 50D available among the regular C-41 films.

* You could argue that you can mix your own ECN-2 developer at home and save half a EUR that way, but I'd guess there are very few people that will spend 20 EUR for a roll of film and would then be priced out by (relatively) cheap C-41 processing.
 

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I'm already set up to do ECN-2 dev at home for less than $1 USD per roll, and I've never particularly liked Portra 400. Guess there's no accounting for taste. Vision3 250D looks excellent to me.

Edit: But you're right that if Cinestill's markup is bad enough, I won't be buying as much. The FPP always sold 24 exposure rolls of remjet 250D for $9.99 USD. I usually use it in my half frame for snapshots of family and whatnot.
 
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someone has now obtained the full kodak document that kicked off this thread;

 

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Thanks for updating; this all sounds very nice indeed!
Noteworthy is that the new AHU Vision3 will replace the present product, not be an addition to the line up as I understood before. The process-surviving antistatic layer is a real benefit; I can attest to present Vision3 being a veritable dust magnet. Not a major issue, but if that aspect improves, this would certainly be helpful.

The energy savings mentioned by Kodak are probably a major factor in this, as is the removal of a processing step and the impact on wastewater flows this will have. There's presently a real push towards more sustainable products and production, and this change fits very well in this picture.
 

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koraks said:
There's presently a real push towards more sustainable products and production, and this change fits very well in this picture.
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And it finally eliminates borates from all of Kodak's colour processes - in terms of volumes B&W neg probably isn't an issue, but colour is.
 

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Lachlan Young said:
And it finally eliminates borates from all of Kodak's colour processes - in terms of volumes B&W neg probably isn't an issue, but colour is.
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There are alternative baths to PB-2 - PB-C1/PB-C2, which are carbonate-based.
 

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I have a freezer full of the REMJET stuff so this is great for the future if I can land some more short ends.
 

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The only downside I think about is the loss of the look of remjet removed halation film popularised by cinestill.
On the personal level, perhaps will get some Vision 500T rolls to freeze under summer for some Asian city trip future. Anecdotically I bought a roll of Cinestill 800T in 2020 and it lingered till last year.

Great work by Kodak.

A while ago there were these discussions of a new product; skipping through the thread someone had the right guess of remjetless film but before the current AHU I still wonder if the "Portra motion picture" rumor is still relevant.

New Kodak Motion Picture Stock

I found out through this video that Kodak had referred to "a yet-to-be-released Kodak motion picture stock, which is similar to a beloved professional still photography film" in an Instagram post about a music video. The description is similar on the DP's post. On that note, he also shot...
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Prest_400 said:
A while ago there were these discussions of a new product; skipping through the thread someone had the right guess of remjetless film but before the current AHU I still wonder if the "Portra motion picture" rumor is still relevant.
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Cinematographer Kenny Suleimanagich, who uploaded test footage of 16mm AHU Vision3, also uploaded test footage of Kodak 5256, AKA Portra Motion Picture film:
 

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Daniël Oosterhuis said:
Kodak 5256, AKA Portra Motion Picture film
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Thanks for the reminder! So far it is still quite under the radar without an official release? No relevant results from google searches of Kodak 5256. Rather an historical Ektachrome dupe film.

Late PE mentioned that Ektar is a redesigned MP film. I can't find a citation about the still Portras being further removed from motion picture films but do recall some discussion about it.
 

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Prest_400 said:
Thanks for the reminder! So far it is still quite under the radar without an official release? No relevant results from google searches of Kodak 5256. Rather an historical Ektachrome dupe film.
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As far as I know, it is still under the radar.
Kodak only really spoke of it on an Instagram post last year about a music video, as it was shot on "an unreleased motion picture stock, based on a classic photography film stock".

It came up in a thread about the V3 AHU on Cinematography.com earlier in April, with another cinematographer mentioning having shot some of it.
Seems like they let those cinematographers also test the Portra stock while testing out the AHU V3 stock.
 

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Reflx Labs posted a blog/review talking about it:

Kodak's New AHU Film Review

A friend of mine recently bought some Vision3 500T 35mm short ends from a film crew, thinking it was regular Vision3 film. But when he respooled the film into 135 cassettes, he immediately noticed something different: the film’s color looked distinctly unlike normal Vision3, and there was no...
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Where's this guy getting short ends from? I demand to know!!!
 

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I can only speculate, but the guy providing the sample images seems to have some connection to one of the film crews being allowed to pilot the new stock. Probably has a buddy who could smuggle him the tail end of a big roll. Lucky guy.
 

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BHuij said:
I can only speculate, but the guy providing the sample images seems to have some connection to one of the film crews being allowed to pilot the new stock. Probably has a buddy who could smuggle him the tail end of a big roll. Lucky guy.
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Before Covid I had a few friends like that. I don't know where they went.
 

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BHuij said:
I can only speculate, but the guy providing the sample images seems to have some connection to one of the film crews being allowed to pilot the new stock. Probably has a buddy who could smuggle him the tail end of a big roll. Lucky guy.
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Yeah, was gonna say the same/similiar thing of "they probably know a guy who knows a guy"
 
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