KODAK MAX Versatility Plus Film / GT
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Contents

• Description
• Darkroom Recommendations
• Storage and Handling
• Exposure
  • Film Speed: ISO/DIN 800/30°
  • Daylight
  • Electronic Flash
  • Fluorescent and High-Intensity Discharge Lights
  • Adjustments for Long and Short Exposures
• Processing
• Judging Negative Exposures
• Printing Negatives
• Retouching
• Image Structure
  • Print Grain Index
• Curves

Description

KODAK MAX Versatility Plus Film brings picture quality to a new level by combining the color quality, fine detail, and picture clarity of lower-speed films with the benefits of higher speed films. This film delivers extra sharpness and unsurpassed fine grain (among 800-speed films) for crisper, clearer pictures—even when enlarged. KODAK MAX Versatility Plus Film produces consistently bright, vibrant colors across a wide range of lighting conditions. It provides accurate skin-tone reproduction for natural-looking "people pictures."

Darkroom Recommendations

Do not use a safelight. Handle unprocessed film in total darkness.

Storage and Handling

Store unexposed film at 21°C (70°F) or lower in the original sealed package. Always store film (exposed or unexposed in a cool, dry place. Process film as soon as possible after exposure.

Because of the high speed of this film, be especially careful to load and unload the camera in subdued light.

Request visual inspection at airport or other security x-ray inspection stations. Some x-ray screening equipment may fog this film.

Protect negatives from strong light, and store them in a cool, dry place. For more information on storing negatives, see KODAK Publication No. E-30, Storage and Care of KODAK Photographic Materials—Before and After Processing.

Exposure

Film Speed: ISO/DIN 800/30°

Use these speed numbers in the table below with cameras or meters marked for ISO, ASA, or DIN speeds or exposure indexes. Do not change the film-speed setting when you use a filter if your camera has through-the-lens metering. For critical work, make a series of test exposures.

Daylight

Use the exposures in the table below for average frontlit subjects from 2 hours after sunrise to 2 hours before sunset.

Electronic Flash

Use the appropriate guide number in the table below as a starting point for your equipment. Select the unit output closest to the number given by your flash manufacturer. Then find the guide number for feet or meters.

To determine the lens opening, divide the guide number by the flash-to-subject distance. If negatives are too dark (overexposed), use a higher guide number; if they are too light (underexposed), use a lower number.

Fluorescent and High-Intensity Discharge Lights

For best results without special printing, use the color-correction filters in the table below as starting points when you expose these films under fluorescent and high-intensity discharge lamps. Use exposure times of 1/60 second or longer to avoid the brightness and color variations that occur during a single alternating-current cycle.

Actual filtration may vary between lamps and lamp manufacturers. Depending on the specific source, additional filtration or special printing may be required to achieve best results.

Note: When you don't know the type of fluorescent lamps, try a 10C + 20M filter combination and increase exposure by 2/3 stop; color rendition may be less than optimum.

Note: Some primary color filters were used in the tables above to reduce the number of filters and/or to keep the exposure adjustment to a minimum. Red filters were substituted for equivalent filtration in magenta and yellow. Blue filters were substituted for equivalent filtration in cyan and magenta.

Adjustments for Long and Short Exposures

You do not need to make any exposure or filter adjustments for exposure times of 1/10,000 second to 1 second. Exposures longer than 1 second may require exposure compensation and/or filtration. For critical applications make tests under your conditions.

Processing

Process in KODAK FLEXICOLOR Chemicals for Process C-41.

Judging Negative Exposures

Expose this film properly for optimum results.

You can check the exposure level of the color negative with a suitable electronic densitometer equipped with a filter such as the red filter for Status M Densitometry, or a KODAK WRATTEN Gelatin Filter No. 92. Depending on the subject and the light source used for exposure, a normally exposed color negative measured through the red filter should have the approximate densities listed below. These densities apply for the recommended light sources and correct processing of the negative.

Printing Negatives

This film features similar printing characteristics to other KODAK ROYAL GOLD, KODAK MAX, and KODAK GOLD Films.

You can make color prints from negatives by printing them on KODAK EKTACOLOR Edge 8 and ROYAL VIII Papers. It can also be printed on KODAK PROFESSIONAL DURAFLEX® Print Material.

Make color slides and transparencies by printing the negatives on KODAK VERICOLOR Slide Film, VERICOLOR Print Film or on KODAK PROFESSIONAL DURATRANS® Display Material, or KODAK PROFESSIONAL DURACLEAR™ Display Material.

You can scan an image to a file and print digitally to: KODAK PROFESSIONAL Digital III Color Paper, KODAK PROFESSIONAL DURATRANS® Digital Display Material, KODAK PROFESSIONAL DURACLEAR™ Digital Display Material, and KODAK PROFESSIONAL DURAFLEX® Digital Print Material.

Make black-and-white prints on KODAK PANALURE SELECT RC Papers for conventional black and white processing, or on KODAK PROFESSIONAL PORTRA Black & White Paper for Process RA-4.Starting recommendations for KODAK EKTACOLOR Edge 8 Paper are available online at www.kodak.com/go/photofinishing.

Retouching

Negatives on this film can be retouched on the emulsion side with retouching pencils, after applying a retouching fluid, such as KODAK Retouching Fluid.

Image Structure

Print Grain Index

The Print Grain Index number refers to a method of defining graininess in a print made with diffuse-printing illumination. It replaces rms granularity and has a different scale which cannot be compared to rms granularity.

• The method uses a uniform perceptual scale, with a change of four units equaling a just noticeable difference in graininess to 90 percent of observers.
• A Print Grain Index rating of 25 on the scale represents the approximate visual threshold for graininess. A higher number indicates an increase in the amount of graininess observed.
• The standardized inspection (print-to-viewer) distance for all print sizes is 14 inches, the typical viewing distance for a 4 x 6-inch print.
• In practice, larger prints will likely be viewed from distances greater than 14 inches, which reduces apparent graininess.
• Print Grain Index numbers may not represent graininess observed from more specular printing illuminants, such as condenser enlargers.

The Print Grain Index number printed in this publication applies to the following standards:

Curves

Characteristic:

Daylight; Process C-41, Status M Densitometry; Log H Ref is -1.74

Spectral Sensitivity

Effective Exposure 1/100 sec; Daylight; Status M Densitometry; 0.2 > D-min

Spectral Dye Density:

Typical Densities for D-min and Midscale Neutral Subject

Note: The Kodak materials described in this publication for use with KODAK MAX Versatility Plus Film are available from dealers who supply Kodak products. You can use other materials, but you may not obtain similar results.

Note: If you have questions or need assistance, contact your local Kodak representative.

Note: The contents of this publication are subject to change without notice.

Kodak, Kodak Professional, Gold, Ektacolor, Flexicolor, Max, Wratten, Duraflex, Vericolor, Duratrans, Duraclear, Portra, Royal, and Panalure are trademarks.

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Footnotes\Notices

NOTICE: The data in this publication represent product tested under the conditions of exposure and processing specified. They are representative of production coatings, and therefore do not apply to a particular box or roll of photographic material. They do not represent standards or specifications that must be met by Eastman Kodak Company. The company reserves the right to change and improve product characteristics at any time.

E2452 • Revised 06-2001