Kodak 5247 and Vuescan

[Robert Peirce]

Kodak 5247 was an ASA 100, tungsten balanced, movie film that was
popular many years ago. It could make slides (film) and negatives. I
have many negatives from 1980 I am trying to scan and I cannot decide
what profile to use in Vuescan to come close to the actual color. If
anybody has ever scanned these negatives, please help!!

This stuff was really crap, but I didn't know it at the time. There
were all sorts of color cross-over problems because it was a tungsten
film usually shot in daylight or with flash. You could make a pretty
decent print from it but it was never going to be perfect. Still, I
have a number of shots I would love to preserve.

 

[Guest]

It could make slides

No, it couldn't. The lab could make slides from the negatives.

 

[Robert Peirce]

No, it couldn't. The lab could make slides from the negatives.

Okay, but that was a big selling point. Most color neg stock was not
used to produce slides.

 

[Guest]

Okay, but that was a big selling point.

I remember the ads. But it wasn't anything special about
the film.

Most color neg stock was not used to produce slides.

Any good lab could and would do it though.

 

[tomm42]

Kodak 5247 was an ASA 100, tungsten balanced, movie film that was
popular many years ago. It could make slides (film) and negatives. I
have many negatives from 1980 I am trying to scan and I cannot decide
what profile to use in Vuescan to come close to the actual color. If
anybody has ever scanned these negatives, please help!!

This stuff was really crap, but I didn't know it at the time. There
were all sorts of color cross-over problems because it was a tungsten
film usually shot in daylight or with flash. You could make a pretty
decent print from it but it was never going to be perfect. Still, I
have a number of shots I would love to preserve.

I would just do the scans on a generic negative profile. Work with
white and black points in Photoshop. If the film was used outside and
with flash and you didn't use an 85B filter, will be tough. Seattle
film works messed up a lot of folks with this film.
I used to use it in 16mm doing films and it was a lovely stock under
tungsten.

Tom