Mini Big-Leaf Princess flower - testing Cinestill 400D in 4x5
Within two hours of this capture, this 1 inch pup was eaten by the 36 inch dog (it was literally swiped leaving the pot + soil intact).
March 2024
My box of crowd-funded color film arrived mid-December 2023, and I finally loaded and exposed six sheets over the weekend. I have used 400D in 120 format (same crowdfunding campaign) and thought it was nice enough, but not worth the markup when Kodak Gold is also available ($15 Cinestill vs $9 Kodak).
First impressions (loading and developing on a #20thcenturycamera reel in a Paterson tank)
- The film base is very thin and flimsy compared other 4x5 film I’ve used (Fomapan, Ilford, and Kodak)
- The sheets jumped off my reel during development, likely from inversions while washing (which other photographers have mentioned)
- VERY gentle agitation using the swirl-stick (Paterson tank) kept the sheets on the reel for the rest of development
- Negatives include artifacts on edges that are (hopefully) from the development troubles
- Colors, exposure, etc. all matched my expectations from intended light metering
Exposed on Cinestill 400D with a Burke and James 4x5 View Camera + Nikkor-T 270/6.3 lens; developed in developed in homemade ECN-2 color chemistry.
Mini Big-Leaf Princess flower - testing Cinestill 400D in 4x5
Within two hours of this capture, this 1 inch pup was eaten by the 36 inch dog (it was literally swiped leaving the pot + soil intact).
March 2024
My box of crowd-funded color film arrived mid-December 2023, and I finally loaded and exposed six sheets over the weekend. I have used 400D in 120 format (same crowdfunding campaign) and thought it was nice enough, but not worth the markup when Kodak Gold is also available ($15 Cinestill vs $9 Kodak).
First impressions (loading and developing on a #20thcenturycamera reel in a Paterson tank)
- The film base is very thin and flimsy compared other 4x5 film I’ve used (Fomapan, Ilford, and Kodak)
- The sheets jumped off my reel during development, likely from inversions while washing (which other photographers have mentioned)
- VERY gentle agitation using the swirl-stick (Paterson tank) kept the sheets on the reel for the rest of development
- Negatives include artifacts on edges that are (hopefully) from the development troubles
- Colors, exposure, etc. all matched my expectations from intended light metering
Exposed on Cinestill 400D with a Burke and James 4x5 View Camera + Nikkor-T 270/6.3 lens; developed in developed in homemade ECN-2 color chemistry.