[Frameworks] Best route Reversal Film >> Release print?

[Jeff Kreines]

Julian:

It’s a real problem.  Kodak screwed all of us lovers of B&W reversal when they discontinued 7361, a great film stock with really silvery blacks and grays.  There are no reversal print stocks of any kind that I know of, unless some lab is willing to experiment and positive stock as reversal.

It’s gone.

Sure, you can make an internegative and a print, but you will have significant generation loss from those two steps, not to mention a lot of expense.  I used to do this a lot, about 40 years ago when it was cheap, but the quality was never up to a B&W reversal print.

You could consider embracing the dark side.  Kinetta Archival (disclosure — that’s me) has mastered capturing everything from contrasty film, prints, or reversal originals — without compromise.  (We just did some amazing stuff for your friend Rebecca’s father, that he shot in 1969 — in my opinion it looks better than any print could, because we have frame-by-frame control of gamma if needed.) We can make 2K or 4K DCPs if you need them.

Don’t mean to turn this into an ad, but as a lover of B&W reversal I worked very hard on getting this right.

Best,

Jeff


Jeff Kreines
Kinetta
jeff at kinetta.com
kinetta.com
kinettaarchival.com

On Apr 24, 2014, at 5:11 PM, Julian Antos <julian at northwestchicagofilmsociety.org> wrote:

> Can someone recommend the best workflow for edited B+W reversal to positive "release print" ? This is just for some home movies I am cutting together, nothing too fancy, no sound. I'd just like to have a projection print so I'm not screening the original. 
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> Thanks!
> 
> Julian 
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