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Topic: Colored Filters To The Rescue
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Gerald Santana
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1060
From: Cottage Grove OR
Registered: Dec 2010
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posted March 10, 2017 03:32 PM
Hi Janice,
Thanks for the plug and really appreciate your invention, those bottle caps are a brilliant idea. I'm trying this immediately.
My recommendations are exactly like yours, and have been greatly benefiting from the combination of the new light blue and green gels together.
My thought is the same, try other filters out there and see what works best for you and keep them in an envelope and avoid touching the center, it will leave finger prints, and my blur the image. Although you can clean them...gently with a little white vinegar.
It's really nice to see some of these faded films without the harsh brightness of the fade, and a return to a decent color skin tone.
Thanks again to those who ordered already, I have a few left if anyone needs them. Bill, I'll send you a set.
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Rich Malmsten
Film Handler
Posts: 41
From: White Bear Lake, MN, USA
Registered: Feb 2017
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posted March 20, 2017 08:40 PM
I used my new filters for the first time tonight and I have to say that I am extremely pleased with the results. On my slightly faded print of "The Pit and the Pendulum" the colors with the filter are truly impressive. I wouldn't have thought it could take the red out and leave such good colors.
On the more badly faded films there was still a significant improvement, though if the colors are mostly gone to begin with, there just isn't enough left for the filters to work with. Still, it knocks down the red and makes a marked improvement.
I found what others had said to be true, too - different filters seem to work better on different films, it wasn't a one-filter-fits-all situation. So check all the filters and combinations to see which works best with any particular film.
With regards to a holder for the filter, I tried a different approach than what Janice did. Later I'll upload some pictures, but basically I sandwiched a filter between two pieces of thin cardboard with circular holes cut in them the diameter of the projector lens. With a little trial and error I got the right height cardboard so that when I slipped it between the projector body and the leader trimmer (on my Elmos ST1200 & 600), it stayed wedged in place with the hole directly in front of the lens. Just that easy!
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Robert Crewdson
Phenomenal Film Handler
Posts: 1031
From: UK
Registered: Jun 2013
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posted February 08, 2018 12:06 PM
I thought the idea of using gels to try to restore some colour to faded films was a relatively new idea, until i heard from ex forum member Hugh Scott, who came across an advert he placed in Film For the Collector magazine, more than 20 years ago. On it's own, blue has a cold look. You need the other colours mentioned in his note to me to get natural looking skin tones.
“Hi Robert, while browsing through back Issues of FFTC, came across an old ad I’d placed years ago regarding coloured gels, I had enlightened my mate, the late Harry Nadler on them long before, as he used to host ‘The Manchester Fantastic Film Festival’, he swore by the ‘pale blue’, but I advised he use it in conjunction with the ‘medium yellow’ or gaslight green’, as it gave colour to foliage and flesh tone, of course it depends on how faded a print is, but it removes the ‘fire’ from pink prints and restores a lot of colour that would ordinarily be lost. The gels I sent out were ROSCO SUPERGEL, the sheets were expensive, but worth it, the colours I used to send out were, Gaslight Green, Medium Yellow, Pale Blue & Leaf Green in 6” squares enough to make filters to ‘double up’ if need be, post paid, of course to my ‘filmic friends’ they were gratis, but at least the readers of FFTC had no reason to watch faded prints.”
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