Which stock should I use for my 16mm film? I am looking for blown out highlights and shadows with no details. I am planning on shooting infinite black but am afraid the black paper background will show, and have white outlines simulating corners and I want those to be blown out. I am also looking for a lot of grain. Films whose looks I would like this to look like are probably something like Meshes of the Afternoon or Buffalo 66.
http://cinesphere.blogs.sapo.pt/arquivo/buffalo66.jpg
http://arturovasquez.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/deren-1.jpg
It is in color. My main concern is the different kinds of 500 asa film. I have heard that a higher asa doesn't necessarily have to correspond to high contrast and grain, and it's difficult to compare with all the writeups about these stocks that claim to have "even finer grain" and so forth. I am wondering if anyone has any experience with these stocks, what their differences are and which one would match my needs. Are there stocks of lower asa that would do the job even better?
I am looking at:
Kodak:
7218 Vision 2 500T
7219 Vision 3 500T
Fuji:
8673 Eterna 500T
8643 Vivid 160T
8692 Reala 500D
http://cinesphere.blogs.sapo.pt/arquivo/buffalo66.jpg
http://arturovasquez.files.wordpress.com/2008/06/deren-1.jpg
It is in color. My main concern is the different kinds of 500 asa film. I have heard that a higher asa doesn't necessarily have to correspond to high contrast and grain, and it's difficult to compare with all the writeups about these stocks that claim to have "even finer grain" and so forth. I am wondering if anyone has any experience with these stocks, what their differences are and which one would match my needs. Are there stocks of lower asa that would do the job even better?
I am looking at:
Kodak:
7218 Vision 2 500T
7219 Vision 3 500T
Fuji:
8673 Eterna 500T
8643 Vivid 160T
8692 Reala 500D