So I received some film awhile back that I was told was really good. I took my shots & I dropped it off a month ago & just received it back.
Now the weird thing that happened was that on my film roll all my pictures came out postive, the colored photo is on my roll of film. I asked the lady to put it on a CD & they come out as the negatives. Is there anything I can possibly do with this film? It's CR-56 film by the way,
I don't have acces to an enlarger or chemicals for colored film so I'm not really sure what to do with it. Does anyone have any ideas?
CR= Colour Reverse... ie slide film... so yes... the negatives are normally mounted and shown as slides and there are no prints...
In most photo editing programs you can invert the colours to make them positive... if you cannot email them to me and I can do it for you... 10 sec job...
if they printed them backwards... they are idiots... honestly I am amazed they never inverted the colours at the lab... after you have you invert... post or print away as per normal...
The need thing you can do is put the negs someplace where light will shine through them and you have little decals with photos... yes it ruins you negs... but you have little decals with photos...
Well, whoever scanned that stuff should be slapped for the mere fact they cannot recognize slide film and they work in a photo department/lab.
Just shoot it and have a competent person scan it properly. I personally love slide film, I could run off into the sunset with a roll of Velvia and live happily ever after.
Ohh hmm okay. Well actually I have no CD just my negatives :( But thank you for offering to adjust them.
I was thinking maybe it was just a processing fail because I've never seen a film roll like that before.
I received the film from my math teacher actually, he said he does all his work with CR film so I was planning on talking to him about it tomorrow.
And yes after they were processed it did cost an extra couple bucks just to get the negatives back.
@hmgphotos yeah... but that is just because you cannot have you Kada anymore....
@kihphotographie ok hold the film up to a uniform light source... like a piece of thin paper taped to window on sunny day... hold negative one frame at a time almost against the window... take photo with digital camera and crop it to the size of the film... there is actually a macro slide holder for some digital camera lenses...
It's not a processing error, it's slide film, the negatives are suppose to come out not as negative images, but the image looking like it would if it was printed.
You negatives look like this, right? (Just not mounted, and not Kodachrome)
If so, that's slide film, and that's what you have.
LOL, Jordan beat me to posting... but the technique he describes is how I took my photo ^^^. Just with no white sheet up paper, just a blank window.
People use slide film because the colors are absolutely insane. Velvia can produce colors that are not blown out that are so vivid computer screens cannot display them properly. And it is also low grain. And just rocks. Haha
@hmgphotos Yes basically they look like that. Ahhh I see hmm okay to be honest I never really knew there were different kinds of film, well, not like slide film I should say. Thank you so much :]
@icywarm Ahhh that's a great idea I'm going to have to give that a try! My digital camera as the macro function on it too perfect! Thank you so much for the help! :D
@kihphotographie Haha, there's lots of kinds of film! :) Slide film actually predates color negative film, as crazy as that is!
You should get really good results by photographing them digitally. Hell, it's the method I'm switching to, to "scan" my film. It's a lot cheaper than paying for scans to CD, and my camera will give a better resolution (and colors) than the scans I get.
@hmgphotos Haha well I mean I KNOW that there's all sorts of film I've just never been introduced to any of it. I work mainly with only 35 mm film & that's about it :P But yeah for sure I'll try that method out tomorrow & hopefully it works out for me :] & yeah that actually sounds like a good idea instead of going out to get them scanned, I'm going to have to start doing this from now on :]
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In most photo editing programs you can invert the colours to make them positive... if you cannot email them to me and I can do it for you... 10 sec job...
if they printed them backwards... they are idiots... honestly I am amazed they never inverted the colours at the lab... after you have you invert... post or print away as per normal...
your exposure needs to spot on (very little forgivenss compared to colour) and it cost often MUCH more to have developed...
Just shoot it and have a competent person scan it properly. I personally love slide film, I could run off into the sunset with a roll of Velvia and live happily ever after.
I was thinking maybe it was just a processing fail because I've never seen a film roll like that before.
I received the film from my math teacher actually, he said he does all his work with CR film so I was planning on talking to him about it tomorrow.
And yes after they were processed it did cost an extra couple bucks just to get the negatives back.
@kihphotographie ok hold the film up to a uniform light source... like a piece of thin paper taped to window on sunny day... hold negative one frame at a time almost against the window... take photo with digital camera and crop it to the size of the film... there is actually a macro slide holder for some digital camera lenses...
You negatives look like this, right? (Just not mounted, and not Kodachrome)
If so, that's slide film, and that's what you have.
People use slide film because the colors are absolutely insane. Velvia can produce colors that are not blown out that are so vivid computer screens cannot display them properly. And it is also low grain. And just rocks. Haha
@icywarm Ahhh that's a great idea I'm going to have to give that a try! My digital camera as the macro function on it too perfect! Thank you so much for the help! :D
You should get really good results by photographing them digitally. Hell, it's the method I'm switching to, to "scan" my film. It's a lot cheaper than paying for scans to CD, and my camera will give a better resolution (and colors) than the scans I get.