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Hello,
Before I go over to the
"dark side" I am doing one more very thorough film test of all the current
mostly negative films from Kodak, Konica, and Fuji. I have a test bench set up
in my garage with a ND 4.0 filter over my lens with a grayscale/color chart
target and multi-spectrum illumination to make sure that all the wavelengths are
there for the film. Part of my quest was to see if anything out there beats the
RG200 and what is the correct hypering of this film? I tested Supra 400 not
hypered (terrible!) and then hypered it for three hours with a half hour vacuum
with heat... a marked improvement, it really straightened out the color. I need
to know what fellow APML'ers are hypering this film at.
It does not record shadow
detail like the RG200... ie, the hypered RG200 is faster in the shadows... it
will pick up more faint detail... also, RG200 with no hypering is terrible. I
have found that it works best in my set-up with 1/2 hour of vacuum under heat
and then 2 hours of hypering @ 50 C. It will have a SLIGHT bluish cast,
refuting what I said earlier about the rebate color. This film does nothing
until it hits a certain hyper point, then it begins a very slow decline as the
film is over-hypered and receptor sites become hyper fogged. You are safer to
over-hyper rather than under hyper this film because until it hits the correct
hyper point it does nothing.
More results as they
come in....
Tony
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