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Rollei’s ScanFilm; A Unique “Mask-Less” Color Neg Film
Roger W. Hicks & Frances E. Schultz  |  Mar 01, 2007  |  0 comments

The name says it all: Rollei's ScanFilm 400CN Pro is an ISO 400 color negative film (Kodak C-41 compatible) for scanning, rather than for wet printing. The big difference is that the orange mask, incorporated in almost all color negative films since the 1950s, is omitted: it just isn't needed if you are scanning.

On the other hand, the orange mask is no...

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Fujifilm’s Velvia 100 Professional; Replacing The Venerable 50
George Schaub  |  Oct 01, 2005  |  0 comments

Many moons ago I was granted a few test rolls of the then-new Fujichrome Velvia 50. I happened to be in Las Vegas at the time, and curious just how saturated this touted high-saturation film might be I hiked around red rock country and exposed a few rolls. Having been a dedicated slide shooter and film tester for another photo mag I was pretty familiar with slide films and how...

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35mm Tri-X Celebrates Its 50th
A Golden Anniversary For The Queen Of Silver Halide
Frances E. Schultz  |  Nov 01, 2004  |  0 comments

A 50th anniversary is something very special: a golden anniversary, which is a good trick for something made of silver, is what Kodak Tri-X celebrates this year. The first of the X-films was Panatomic-X in 1938. Two-thirds of a century later, there's some doubt about what the X was for: probably "Extra," as it was faster and sharper and finer grained than the...

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Coffee, Tea, Or Vitamin C
Kitchen Chemistry In The Darkroom
Roger K. Bunting  |  Sep 01, 2003  |  3 comments

A century and a half of research and development in photographic processing technology has given us some mighty fine materials to work with. The ease and speed of processing high quality black and white photos with today's materials is truly...

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