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Film stocks
Film stocks, push / pull, and film formats.
What it does
Helps you choose a film: the common color, slide and black and white stocks, with their speed, processing, formats, grain, latitude and look.
- Shot at: you exposed the film at another speed (a 400 at 1600 is +2 stops). The tool tells you what to ask the lab: “push +2” (longer development) or “pull” (shorter).
- Film formats: the image size, the frames per roll, the crop factor, and what the normal lens of each format frames like on 35 mm.
- Speeds, processing and formats come from the manufacturers. Grain, latitude, “pushes well up to” and the look are common practice, by eye: they depend on the lab, the scan and taste. No prices: they change all the time.
- C-41 (color negative) is processed by every lab; black and white by many labs or at home; E-6 (slide) by specialist labs.
Free, no account, nothing is sent: it runs in your browser, even offline.
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