Wacky idea?

[P3D Greg Erker <erker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

  Last night I mounted a stereo pair of negatives taken
with my 4 lens Nishika 9000 camera into a 4 perf slide mount.
I was interested in seeing how sharp the lens are  by
viewing it in my Dr T red button.  (The lenses:not too bad
at f19).

  I was surprised by how fine grained the negs were. The
film was no-name 100 speed.  BobH mentioned the other
day that slide film grain was actually gaps between the
grain where the dye couplers were (if I recall correctly).
So neg film should be lower apparent grain.

  I didn't do any side by side comparisons, but the grain
in the sky area of the negs seemed to be finer than
Kodachrome 25. Quite smooth.

  Of course the result is still a negative, with the
strong orange cast that the base has. I was thinking
that if you could compensate for the orange when you
took the picture (with a filter) the results might be
useful for abstract 3d objects where the reversed
colours and intensities aren't obvious.

  So can you filter out the orange colour during the
taking?  Would taping some orange exposed negative
in front of the lenses do it?

Just more wacky ideas from grain sensitive Greg E in
not so sunny Saskatoon Saskatchewan Canada



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