Vision2 Color Negative Films
With the design of Kodak Vision2 500T color negative film, Kodak introduced film technology optimized for both the conventional optical and digital post-production worlds. While resolution and grain improvements comprise a large part of the advances offered by this new technology, film sensitometry and color reproduction were also carefully engineered to facilitate improvements in neutral scale control and digital post-production productivity. All of this was made possible by silver halide technologies that significantly reduced grain and film-building technologies that shaped a new standard of photographic performance in a world of digital applications.
Color Negative Film for the Digital Future
“A New Color Negative Film for the Digital Future,” Motion Imaging Journal, October/November 2004
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The Kodak team awarded the Scientific and Technical Oscar for development of the Vision2 Color Negative Film family - left to right are Michael Ryan, Pat Jeffries, CEO Antonio Perez, Jim Friday and David Long
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An excerpt from the following paper originally published in SMPTE's Motion Imaging Journal summarizing the technology built into the Vision2 films