Consider using this list to determine the proper color film for your photographic needs. Please remember that despite standarized processes such as E-6 and C-41 variables do exist that can cause variations from what is listed below…this includes the chemical processes themselves! Be sure to run your own tests with your lab before creating your masterworks.
Color Negative Material, C41 Process:
Kodak
- Ektar 100 – Fine grain, great saturation. Rate at EI 64.
- Ultra Color 100 – Fine grain (not as fine as Ektar) but with true box speed of 100. Saturation of this film is also lower than the new Ektar but it has a nice warm quality.
Fuji
- Reala – wonderful for mixed lighting, fine grain. Box speed.
- 800 Z – Nice fast film with fairly fine grain- better in 120mm for larger prints.
Transparency Material, Cross Processed:
FUJI
- Velvia 50 – Green.
- Velvia 100- Rich magenta.
- Velvia 100F- Emphasizes reds.
- Fujifilm Fujichrome 64T – Gold/green
- Sensia 100- Magenta with bright green cast.
- Sensia 200 – Green/ Blue.
- Sensia 400 – Green.
- Provia 100 – Green
- Provia 100f - Cyan
- Provia 400F – Green
- 400x – Greenish but with a great bump in contrast and very fine grain.
KODAK
- Kodak Elitechrome 100 – Green with a hint of cyan.
- Kodak Elitechrome 200-Green with a blue shift, saturated colors.
- Kodak Elitechrome 400 – No color shift, saturated color.
- E100VS - Greenish
- E100 G – No color shift, saturated color with contrast boost.
- E 100GP – No color shift, saturated color with contrast boost.
- Kodak Ektachrome 64T-blue
AGFA
- Agfa Precisa CT 100 – No color shift, saturated colors with strong contrast boost.
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Consider this color chart to a be work in progress, that is to say please send me information on films you have tested with your results and I will add it to this list.
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this is great, thank you.
FYI i find Kodak Elitechrome 100 very golden and very contrasty but mine expired 4 years ago.
Found this interesting article on JPG Magazine – Film Acceleration. It is a kind of cross processing and film speed bump (2 stops) for E-6 films. http://jpgmag.com/stories/1228
It is basically pre-soak, BW developer, wash, non-hardening fix, wash, bleach, wash, then normal C-41 process.
Do you change the film speed when you do cross-developing? Someone told me, that you should speed it up by two stops. That’s a few years since now, so back than I was to low educated, regarding foto-chemistry so I was unable to ask / understand the propper questions.
With the films I cross process I usually rate at box speed unless testing has indicated otherwise… shoot a roll at different EI’s and dial in your own working technique.