Yet another film makes an appearance on the market! CineStill offers three films based on movie film stock that can be processed using standard still film processes, hence the name CineStill. There are two colour films, an ISO 50 daylight film appropriately named 50Daylight, and a high speed ISO 800 tungsten balanced film called 800Tungsten. The latter is an exciting development, since it makes indoor photography in incandescent, flourescent and artificial light possible. A fast f/1.4 lens (any will do :) allows handheld shots with this film indoors. The film can be pushed to ISO 3200 and can be processed in either standard C-41 process or ECN-2 movie film process.
The color film is made by removing the remjet backing from movie film stock, then packaging the film in 35mm canisters for use in still film cameras. Because the antihalation layer (the remjet layer) has been removed, the film does show halation affects, or halos around bright objects. The film does offer cinematic color and the ability to work in daylight (50Daylight, or the 800T with an 85B filter) and low light situations (800T). This blogger is ordering a pack of this film to try out!
Also available from CineStill, is a B&W cinema film, based on Eastman Double-X 5222 film stock, called bwXX. It can be processed in a variety of developers and can be used indoors with tungsten light or outdoors in daylight.
