 Dwight Dolby |
Tell Me About Green Film I am an amateur and read an interesting comment on "green" or unripe film. What is the significant difference in the results of green film vs. ripe film? This sounds as though film "lives" or something! Is there truly a significant difference?
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- Gregory LaGrange Contact Gregory LaGrange Gregory LaGrange's Gallery |
Think the green meant aged, as in film is left to sit awhile, maybe at a certain temp or humidity, before is shipped off to the store. As far as difference, guess it's all in the final out put. True colors as they say. Not even something I actually think about. But it's not something I think you'd actually run into in the real world.
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Michael H. Cothran |
I wrote the comment. To use an analogy, think of film as being like bananas or tomatoes. They're picked green, allowed to ripen, then eaten at their peak. Sometimes you allow them to ripen on the vine, then pick them off, and eat them immediately. If you want to eat your banana today, you buy a yellow one. If it's going to sit in your house a few days, you buy one more green, and allow it to ripen a while. Film is the same way. It starts life "green," then ages to a peak where the colors are the truest, then falls off again (rots) to the point where the colors are no longer accurate. In the film world, there are two distinctions - professional film and amateur film. The distinction does not imply any difference in "quality," but in how it is shipped. "Pro" film is "aged" at the factory, and shipped "ripe," ready to shoot the day it arrives. Because of this, camera stores keep pro film in refrigerators, to help prevent any further aging. Amateur film is shipped "green" or "unripe" from the factory. The philosophy of the manufacturers for amateur film is that it may sit on a retail shelf for weeks or months before someone buys it. In addition, it's likely to sit in one's camera for a few months before it is used up. Thus, shipping it "green," it will have time to ripen by the time someone buys it and uses it. Hope this clarifies your inquiry. Michael H. Cothran www.mhcphoto.net
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Kerry L. Walker |
It's very simple. Green = Fuji
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Dwight Dolby |
Thanks guys. I guess I am a "green" consumer. I still think the Walmart Fuji film (200 or 400 speed) is a good buy, even if it sits on the shelf for a while. I take my film to Walgreens where they have a hi-tech Fugi processer. I didn't enjoy the tech carelessly running my negatives around the edge of the machine, but the results are pretty good. I'm writing from the amateur (green) "world". Thanks for the comments.
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Karthik M. Siddhun |
Thanks Mr.Michael, Mr.Kerry . Your explanations are short and excellent! I wish you both should have special place in this Q&A section. Siddhun.M.Karthik
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Kerry L. Walker |
I agree with you Siddhun. Michael should have a special place for thoughtful and incisive answers. They could put me in Psychos R' Us for my wierd sense of humor.
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Girish Menon |
this is good information,
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