Movie Friday: SantaColor 100 is a brand new 35mm shade adverse movie constituted of an aerial surveillance movie inventory: Digital Pictures Evaluation

Santa 1000, a End movie producer greatest recognized for its black and white movie, has launched SantaColor 100, a brand new shade adverse movie inventory based mostly on a sort of movie initially designed for aerial surveillance pictures.

Though Santa 1000 hasn’t divulged its provider, it does say this movie is manufactured in america and has additionally been offered in restricted portions as Kodak AeroColor 125. As its title suggests, SantaColor 100 is an ISO 100 shade adverse movie suitable with normal C41 processing. Santa 1000 says the movie is ‘very color correct and has exceptionally high quality gran and element’ with the power to be pushed to as much as 800 ISO at the price of extra contrasty.

As for why this movie hasn’t beforehand been obtainable in normal 35mm rolls, Santa 1000 affords three causes. First, the movie has a thinner-than-usual base, which requires it to be rolled onto particular person spools by hand. As you possibly can think about, this implies elevated labor prices and further time in comparison with different movie shares that may be spooled by machines. Second, the minimal order is ‘about 15,000 rolls,’ which is sort of a bit for what’s going to presumably be a distinct segment movie inventory. Lastly, because of the prices concerned, there have all the time been cheaper shade adverse movie shares obtainable.

As for why Santa 1000 is taking the leap to show this right into a stills-oriented movie inventory, the corporate says:

‘[We’re doing it] As a result of we care concerning the neighborhood and subsequently concerning the obtainable of color movie. For any of movie pictures to maneuver ahead and develop, we’d like color movie – and the massive producers are actually struggling to place that on the market in canisters. We all know it feels like a cliche, however we’re right here to assist the neighborhood.’

Santa 1000 notes the movie inventory they’kll be utilizing for this batch of orders, ought to or not it’s funded on Kickstarter, was ‘freshly made in 2022’ and hand-spooled in Finland. The canisters aren’t DX coded, however as Santa 1000 notes, most DX readers default to ISO 100, so it must be usable in most point-and-shoot movie cameras.

Above you possibly can see three push ranges: +0 (100 ISO), +2 (400 ISO) and +3 (800 ISO). Distinction is considerably elevated, however the colors keep correct. Caption and picture: Santa 1000

Because of the thinner, clearer base used for this movie, Santa 1000 suggests loading the movie indoors, as loading it in direct daylight can result in gentle leaks on the primary few frames. This distinctive base also can make scanning a bit trickier, as some scanners attempt to appropriate for the density of the bottom and may make scanned photographs look extra purple than they need to be. As Santa 1000 notes although, {most professional} labs will be capable to account and proper for this.

Picture: SantaColor 100 pushed to ISO 800 (+3 push), and as you possibly can see the colors maintain up very nicely.

As for the hand-spooling of this movie, Santa 1000 notes all of those rolls can be spooled onto re-used containers. They do disclaim ‘This does imply that there might be high quality issues,’ however for anybody who experiences extreme gentle leaks or different issued pertaining to the spooling can have their rolls changed.

mage: Shot on SantaColor 100 and scanned at a typical lab. The outcomes are usually redder than ‘correct’ color steadiness when scanned at labs that do not take lots of care with colors, however some scenes and folks adore it! Caption and picture: Santa 1000

Shot on SantaColor 100 Picture and caption: Santa 1000

A typical look from SantaColor 100, scanned by Carmencita – pleasing tones, deep greens, barely heat and really high quality grain. Picture and caption: Santa 1000

Santa 1000 has an intensive information on shoot, scan and edit the movie on the marketing campaign web page, so you’ll want to head on over and browse extra should you’d like to seek out out extra data. A pledge of €60/$62 will get you a five-pack of SantaColor 100, whereas a 10-pack will set you again €100/104. The marketing campaign has already achieved 43% of its ~$130,000 purpose with 22 days remaining. If the fastened purpose doesn’t get met, your cash can be returned and the marketing campaign received’t proceed. The primary rolls are anticipated to ship out December 2022. Nonetheless, there’s all the time the chance of delays.

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