Have you ever met someone who looked damn fine but was clearly high maintenance. If you have well then you have met CMS 20. This film is old school speed meets 21st century german perfectionism. It has the most extreme tonal range of any film I've ever used and makes my d3 with the active D-lighting look pathetic. It is extremely fine grain. I scanned 35mm negs at 1200 dpi and it pixelated before I saw a grain structure. Now that all sounds amazing and it is, but here comes that other side of the two sided sword. It requires its own developer and it has a single layer of emulsion printed on the film, which sounds really cool and makes great cool clear cripsy negatives, however it also means if you wave your hands around in an adjoining room your negatives will be scratched. Sometimes though, the maintenance is worth being with a knockout. This film is simply beyond explanation.
Monday, September 28, 2009
ADOX CMS 20
Have you ever met someone who looked damn fine but was clearly high maintenance. If you have well then you have met CMS 20. This film is old school speed meets 21st century german perfectionism. It has the most extreme tonal range of any film I've ever used and makes my d3 with the active D-lighting look pathetic. It is extremely fine grain. I scanned 35mm negs at 1200 dpi and it pixelated before I saw a grain structure. Now that all sounds amazing and it is, but here comes that other side of the two sided sword. It requires its own developer and it has a single layer of emulsion printed on the film, which sounds really cool and makes great cool clear cripsy negatives, however it also means if you wave your hands around in an adjoining room your negatives will be scratched. Sometimes though, the maintenance is worth being with a knockout. This film is simply beyond explanation.
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