The guys from Silbersalz35 were organizing a small Night Photowalk in Stuttgart and part of the package was one roll of their 500T Vision3 cinefilms that you already know from some of my previous articles. I figured this was a good opportunity to find out how the film holds up being pushed one stop so I decided to pay the entry fee and join.
Processing (ECN-2, Push +1) and scanning was done at Silbersalz35 in Germany.
The recommendation by Silbersalz is to shoot this film as ISO250, before I went for ISO400, but this time I dialed in ISO640 – with the intention of pushing it 1 stop.
Some of the pictures from this evening might have benefitted from a slight overexposure compared to the meter readings, as I had to increase the exposure in post on quite a few of these.
Around some of the highlights you can also see slight halos, but despite having been pushed this is still a long way from what you get with Cinestill 800T.
Unless you go for the “raw scans” option you receive files that have already been color graded. The ones from inside the library all had a strong green color cast, but this might actually be due to the light they are using there, as already with other films I encountered this strong green cast. And also all the pictures not taken inside the library show more neutral colors (bit warm, but likable warm):
This was the first time I had a film pushed and it actually looks like I will be doing this again, at least with these 500T films. I don’t see a really noticeable drop in terms of image quality compared to the previous times I was shooting this film and I really like how the colors came out here. I wouldn’t call them neutral, but especially when it comes to film I gladly take cinematic and appealing over neutral.
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great shots! i’ve found the Kodak motion film is just outstanding and I bulk order and bulk roll it. to my eyes it has portra beat in total dynamic range and seems more forgiving for underexposer.
amazing shots!
and I just know that voigtlander really makes a very good optic for dealing with distortion. The barrel distortion is almost non existent.
Stupid question: Silbersalz35 500T is recommended for being shot at ISO250.
Deas pushing one stop mean, that you metered for ISO500, oder for ISO1000 ?
I really love the film stock for night fotography and also for overcast daylight, but I never pushed it.
Your question is already being answered in the first paragraph:
“The recommendation by Silbersalz is to shoot this film as ISO250, before I went for ISO400, but this time I dialed in ISO640 – with the intention of pushing it 1 stop.”
Came out a bit dark though, so I would either go with ISO500 or have it pushed 2 stops, which I didn’t try yet.
Hi
I think the guy above was asking more about how was the film developed? We use pulling/pushing when referring to development.
From your answer we only know that you underexposed the film by shooting it at ISO640.
But how was it developed? Normally or pushed?
If the article says push +1 obviously push +1 🙂