Dealer’s V1 500T

• Respooled Kodak Vision1 500T
• Strong grain & vintage touch
• ECN-2 development recommended for good color rendition.
• Films that were shot on this material: Titanic, Blow, Ocean’s Eleven, Bruce Almighty

The predecessor of V2 500T with a unique color palette. It is recommended to use it with sufficient lighting, the film also reacts well to overexposure. Slight color shifts may occur in difficult lighting situations. V1 500T may show slight fogging at the edges depending on the scan.

Since the film is expired, it is highly recommended to develop it in ECN-2, where the colors are pronounced and realistic, while the film gets an experimental look in C-41.
In midday sun or very cool light, an 85B filter is recommended, as the film otherwise tends to have a blue cast. This can be corrected to a limited extent in post-processing.

Motion picture film: This film has a remjet layer, so it can’t be dropped of at a normal lab, because that would damage their processing machine! There are numerous specialized labs that develop this film, a List can be found here. Alternatively, developing at home is not complicated, a guide can be found here.

Age: This film dates from around 1999 and therefore has a lower ISO than the manufacturer’s specification, as film loses sensitivity (ISO) with age. We therefore determine the True ISO (see below in the properties), with which the film is correctly exposed.