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What is the difference between color neg. and color reversal film and which is better?
Color reversal film is cheaper because the camera original is processed into your projectable print whereas with color negative there is a development of the camera original into a negative and then a projectable print is created from that. Reversal does not have as good color reproduction or latitude. You also can't have any more prints made from a reversal stock unless you have an inter-negative made, which is very pricey and degrades the quality of the finished print. By the way, legend has it that Spike Lee
had Kodak make up a batch of 35mm reversal stock specially for the film Clockers. He had the film dual processed (i.e. the reversal
stock printed, inter negative made and then prints made from that negative) to intentionally create a grainy, blocky color saturated
print. Color Reversal has a nice look for special purposes (70's look) and is fine for transfer to video but really not suited for making film prints.
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