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Film
makers
on a roll
Brandon and Brian Wright of
CineStill Film have high hopes for
a new flm that gets great efects
under continuous artifcial light,
as Tom Smallwood discovers
igital is now the
default technology
for most amateur
photographers
and pros, so its easy to forget
that there are people out
there still making innovative
photographic lm. Brandon
and Brian Wright are great
examples. The Hollywoodbased twins have developed
CineStill 800T a stock
that claims to be the only
high-speed (ISO 800) colour
lm currently made that is
compatible with incandescent/
tungsten light.
This opens up a whole new
world of possibilities for
photographers, says Brandon.
You can shoot with the lm
cameras you love in limited
available light, or in the studio
with continuous hot lights,
similar to those used on the
set of a movie.
Brandon and his brother
started delving into
Movie heritage
Original beta testing for
CineStill began in 2012, but the
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concept of using motion-picture
lm for still photography and
original development tests
began years before, when the
twins started shooting Kodak
Vision3 500T 5219 emulsion.
We did this by shooting
long-roll, 250-exposure,
bulk-lm backs and through
developing a special
relationship with a local
motion-picture lab, says
Brandon. We did this because
of the costly minimum lengths
required by motion-picture
labs, and because the more
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Film resistance
Brandon believes CineStill
800T came about because
photographers have very
limited options when shooting
in articial continuous light. At
a wedding, for example, most
lm photographers end up
switching to a combination of
high-speed black & white lm
and high ISO digital colour
photography to capture low-lit
receptions, he says. Although
this works OK, CineStill 800T
allows for beautiful low-light
results. Brandon reckons the
success of CineStill 800T
will help achieve a loftier goal,
too. You are investing in the
future of analogue photography
and fuelling the lm
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