Fuji Eterna 500T

• Moderate grain and versatile
• Cinematic look at night
• Rare emulsion
• Films that were shot on this material: Slumdog Millionaire, Into the Wild, Limitless, Green Zone

THE motion picture film from Fuji, comparable in its time with Kodak Vision2 500T. Eterna 500T has a unique color palette that delivers images with a cinematic character, especially at night. As the fourth generation film from Fuji, Eterna 500t also offers excellent imaging performance in daylight and artificial light, as well as neutral skin tones. The film reacts well to overexposure, but slight color shifts may occur with underexposure.

Fuji released the emulsion in 2004 and ended production in 2013, since then Fuji no longer produces motion picture film. The emulsion was used for numerous movies in the 2000s, but Kodak dominated the market at the time. Accordingly, there are 82 titles in the shotonwhat film archive that were shot on Eterna 500T and 239 titles that were shot on Vision2 500T. This makes remaining stock rarer and the remaining Eterna 500T very popular.

Since this is Fujifilm, it is highly recommended to develop the film 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 approx. 2008 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.