Cinestill 800t and anti-halation

[liverpool_f_]

Hi all,

I am very interested in night time film photography, which is something that is rather difficult to do these days with the lack of high ISO colour films available on the market. I shot my first roll of Cinestill 800T and while none of the photos were great from a photography point of view, I really loved the aesthetic and the ability to shoot in low light situations handheld.

As you may know, the anti-halation layer is removed from this motion picture stock to allow it to be processed in C-41 along with standard colour films. This creates red glows around strong light sources, which there are loads of when you are taking pictures at night.

I was wondering if anyone is aware of filters that could be used to reduce the glows that are created such as UV, polarising or anything else I may not be familiar with. In many images, I don't have issue with the red glowing, but 800T would be an even more useful stock if I could take some degree of control over how much they would affect a photo.

 

[Mostly Vintage Cameras]

You could just use Kodak 500T which is what Cinestill is before the annihilation layer is removed.
If you really wanted to you could try cutting backing paper from a 120 film and rolling that up in the cassette. Changing bag required of course.

 

[Woodsy]

I'm afraid I don't know the precise answer to your question, though from a basic understanding of what the AH layer does, I'm not sure a filter in front of the lens will do anything to control the halation magnitude (brightness). The tint of the halation could be altered, I suppose with a coloured filter, perhaps a faint yellow? I am guessing here.

I appreciate this is not what you are asking, so please feel free to ignore, but one alternative option would be to shoot portra 800 with a weak diffusion filter? This way the strength of the diffusion is essentially customizable? I do appreciate though, that the rendering of the film itself will be different, which may make this point moot

 

[Kevin Allan]

Silverpan lab and Northern Film Lab both do ECN2 processing and remjet removal on Kodak Vision 500T. Nik and Trik also provide this service for rolls they have sold.

 

[liverpool_f_]

Silverpan lab and Northern Film Lab both do ECN2 processing and remjet removal on Kodak Vision 500T. Nik and Trik also provide this service for rolls they have sold.

Thank you for this information. I have only just discovered this is a thing.

I would still like to find out if I can control the halation in 800T as I can get c-41 developed at work, same day, for free!

Benefits of working at a University

 

[Jakemico AE-1P]

Thank you for this information. I have only just discovered this is a thing.

I would still like to find out if I can control the halation in 800T as I can get c-41 developed at work, same day, for free!

Benefits of working at a University

Drop Cinestill a message on social media. They’re pretty active at responding.

That said, I believe it’s just one of the joys of the film. I tape the back plate with masking tape to stop the ‘rogue’ reflections coming back through and leaving random dots on the exposure.

maybe look into removing the remjet from the Kodak film at uni before processing it? If you have the setup, it seems straight forward.

 

[Mintchocs]

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[liverpool_f_]

Drop Cinestill a message on social media. They’re pretty active at responding.

That said, I believe it’s just one of the joys of the film. I tape the back plate with masking tape to stop the ‘rogue’ reflections coming back through and leaving random dots on the exposure.

maybe look into removing the remjet from the Kodak film at uni before processing it? If you have the setup, it seems straight forward.

Thanks for this information! I haven't gotten into the chemical side of photography yet, but maybe it is time.