Name that film?

[joe_hodge]

I think you are right.

 

I was thinking that it was from the 4000dpi scan, which might be enough to get some information from grain structure.

 

Each reduction step after that makes it harder.

 

We have to, at least, download the image as PN gives us, instead of the screen resolution that

our browser gives us. Though that might be less than what was uploaded.

 

Even so, I wouldn't be surprised if we had maybe 10 scans of similar shots

of each film, developed in the same developer, that it might be possible.

If we do it from prints, they should be pretty big, or cropped so that we get a

view of some effects of grain.

 

I'll probably print this frame over the weekend, but I did have the scan in mind for the guessing game - that's why I uploaded the unscaled crop. I know for certain that I wouldn't have a chance of identifying the film from the scan (at any scale), but I was curious if it would jump out at someone with a more discerning eye and more experience.

 

In any case, I'll post the answer this evening.

[joe_hodge]

And the answer is:

 

 

As photographed by an iPhone.

[BeBu Lamar]

No!

What we're actually seeing is a digital 2nd generation copy, and even if it was a paper print in front of us there's no way to tell what film it was shot on.

 

Anyone that thinks different films have a distinctly different look is just fooling themselves.

 

Perhaps some film may have a distinctly different look but that film must relatively bad.