The Last Colour Negative Motion Picture Film In The World: Kodak Vision 3

It's crazy that the demand is so high that companies are literally cutting this up and repackaging it with their own name! Clearly film's not dead. I hope the prices go down to "let me eat once a month plz" levels.

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Can somebody explain me, untill when or have the older 35mm Films been published always straight out after development how they had been recorded? or have they been always graded in some way in the old Days (Contrast lifting etc.)? And when newer 35mm Films were scaned completly, in with computer-format have the been scaned to still contain good information? (sure it was/is not jpeg format) Thanks!

Thank you. That's the key fact that has been escaping to most new cinematographers that want to achieve that "film look" (that's 99% of them); the reason why even having all the color grading techniques available in the world to make video look close to film, video still looks like video at the end of the process; that reason is the difference in how film and video capture the details: PIXEL vs GRAIN. pixels are all perfect squares on the entire picture while grain is shaped like cells and vary from frame to frame. That's why video looks and feels sterile, synthetic, while film looks and feels natural, organic.

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I shoot with Kodak Vision 3 on 35mm cameras and it looks 👌

it's a shame there are not more variations of Film stock, especially as the only one left is similar to Digital Film than traditional Film.

Awesome & Thanks :)

would it be posible to use these film stocks in a stills camera?

I thought Kodak was still producing Ektachrome, Tri-X, and double-X besides Vision.

The look of film is sorta inversely proportional to it's guage because grain and halation and light scattered in emulsion is the same number of microns from super8 to IMAX.

Digital sensors are becoming so good, commercial top enders blow way past 35mm. New films like Tenet or Nope still on celluloid need to be large format to hold up. Probably now, with prototype cameras films are being made with 12-16k sensors hitting IMAX+ benchmarks.

But if you shoot 65mm, especially fine grain, you get that color quality but it will be more like a UHD digital look. In trying to beat digital film could get a more clinical digital style.

THANKYOU for keeping film a big part of your channel.

thanks for the video explanation👍🏻

I have 2 cans of kodak Vision 3 500T 5219 that I want to use to shoot still photos, how can I make it work?

I was, as a photographer, looking for more information about use of it on my field but was amazing to know a little the use of this stock on it's original purpose. Now I'll be following the channel because as said I love movies too.
Regards from Brazil.

Vision 3 is an incredible line of film stocks, and if it's the last one standing, it's a good option to have. It has so much potential, especially when processed strictly photochemically and projected on film, to create incredibly rich and bold colors while still remaining natural. A very rare thing these days, and so very special.

I think we are close to the end when it comes to color film. I say let it die. Digital is so much better, and so much cheaper.

Kodak's Ektachrome reversal film is not a Vision3 stock, but it is commercially available. Marcell Rév shot a lot of season 2 of Euphoria on it.

Film is grounded, saturated, gritty whilst digital is clean but lacks that magic

ORWO is gonna release a color motion picture stock by next year, hopefully. It's going to be available in S8, 16mm, 35mm and 65mm. ORWO used to be a East German film manufacturer that got split from the West German Agfa (a legendary film manufacturer). They already got two motion picture stocks available, but only B&W. One of them is a 100 ISO and the other a 400 ISO. I vastly prefer the ORWO 100 ISO film over Kodak Double-X.

Today ORWO works with the US Library of Congress and supplies ALL of their film (usually duplicate film, leader etc.) for preservation. I wish a lot of more filmmakers would go out of their comfort zone to shoot ORWO so Kodak could sweat a little bit. It's a true shame that Fuji pulled out of the motion picture film (hell, almost all film except for Instax). Fujicolor AX 500T was one of my favorite stocks. The way the primary colors (and green) would pop even before color timing was beautiful. Even Fuji's later Eterna stocks were great. I've got some rolls in my freezer, but it's strictly for still photography shooting.

Could you please make video of how film looks out of camera before colour grade?? And compare with digital camera before and after colour grade...curious to see how much work goes into it to get the film look ..many thanks

Thanks a lot for this well made video! Such great info ❤

German Adox are currently in the process of releasing a brand new motion picture film “ColorMission”

Meh. Aside of rolling shutter, modern digital cameras are as good or better than film.

I'm old and I prefer digital, but you kids have fun with the old stuff. I generally won't know how you shot it, but I will notice when it looks pretty. Surr did an amazing job on that new Fuji mirrorless.

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Wait, so there are no longer B&W motion picture film stock?

Memoria such a good film

ORWO is about to release a new 500 speed color negative motion picture film in all formats from Super 8 to 65mm.

PTA and Nolan still finish on film. Meaning they print film directly onto print or intermediate film and color time in an analog way. The digital version for their movies is either a scanned, timed inter positive element or negative carefully transformed and graded to look like the print. Their master format is the analog print.

Also color negative film doesn’t really have an inherent look anymore since you can do all sorts of things with it in the digital color grade. The only way to see the look they’ve been designed towards is to print the negative or use a print film emulation LUT. That is because much of the look of an analog film is determined by the display preparation transform, meaning the print stock, scanner, or way the scans have been treated. A good example for that is The Northman, which has colors that look more like the Alexa than what we typically associated with Vision 3 films. Films like Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation or A Quiet Place have been graded digitally but still use a very print like transform to achieve an analog look. And many films like Mission Impossible: Fallout or No Time To Die don’t use a print transform but still achieve an analog look.
One case where you can actually see a print in the digital version is The Hateful 8. It is the only movie from Tarantino since Jackie Brown that was finished photochemically and they’ve decided to scan an actual print instead of an inter positive element for the digital version. But Nolan’s and PTA’s digital version all look very close to prints too. Especially the SDR versions.

Please sir make video on using light meter in moving shots ..... please sir....

Great video. As always. But I think Steve Yedlin talks about grain in his resolution demo, and 65mm doesn't mean it is less grainy than 35mm. grain depends on other factors. Not just size.

Some of the best (Hollywood) directors still shoot film. Tarantino, Nolan, Spielberg, Paul Thomas Anderson, Sam Mendes.

I like digital cinematography as much as the next guy. And I love the different visual styles of the Alexa, Red & CineAlta cameras. But at the end of the day, I still prefer the look of film. There's a magic to film that I think digital will never achieve.

Euphoria season 2 was shot on Ektachrome. It was a special request put to Kodak but still

There are hand-cranked IMAX cameras..? That’s the main thing I learned from this video!

I did not know there was only the possiblity to shoot on Kodak vision 3 these days. Thought they still do the Eastman stocks

Red Rocket would have been a good example for modern 16mm films - amazing looking film

you said strongness of grain is due to the size of the film, but cant you also emphasize grain by exposure? from my understanding a dop could emphasize grain by underexposing the footage. Thanks for the interesting content.

Now I wanna learn how to shoot on film. This is so cool and very informative. Glad I subbed a long time ago... Also hello from Cape Town

Great video.

You forgot about black and white film, Eastman 5222 or “double-X” that some films like “lighthouse” and “the French dispatch” are still using in the modern age!