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Film characteristics [Continued from page 323] erally speaking, yellow filters are about two times slower with orthochromatic film than with panchromatic film. Thus, a 2x filter for panchromatic would be about 4x with orthochromatic. Filters other than yellow vary in their speed relationships depending on the particular color to which they are most transparent and to which each film is most sensitive. For general outdoor shooting, with or without filters, orthochromatic film can be recommended highly, even though panchromatic film is undeniably superior. Recently, two films of this type have been put on the market. Their excellent contrast and fine grain characteristics make them ideal for much amateur work. We now have to consider the slow film, called color blind, lowest in cost, slowest in speed and least in its sensitivity to color. Its speed is such that it usually requires a lens opening from one to two stops larger than is required for regular panchromatic film. Being sensitive, in the main, only to blue, it is not adapted to be used with filters for recording nuances of color, nor does it work particularly well under any artificial light with the possible exception of the arc While the sun shines,, Art title background on page 318, as lettered by Kodascope Editing & Titling Service, Inc. or the mercury vapor tube. For personal records made in sunny weather, it is quite satisfactory and it is well adapted to making titles from black and white copy or any other work where good illumination is available and contrast is the chief aim. The grain in this type of film is generally quite fine, so that good enlargements to fair size from single frames are entirely practicable. Advances in the manufacture of the faster types of films, however, are making possible enlargements from all types of 16mm. film. Although the results are surprising when one considers the tremendous magnification, they are, of course, not comparable with prints of still photographs. For a satisfactory enlargement from 16mm. film, it is necessary to select a very sharp, clear frame. 8mm. frames can be enlarged but, because of the greater degree of magnification, results are not equal in quality to those of 16mm. "Dupes" should be made on reversible film only by the manufacturer of that film and, because all scratches and abrasions will be reproduced in the "dupe," the original should be sent for duplication before it has been run through the projector or otherwise handled too often. Duplicates made by reversal can be obtained which scarcely can be told from the original. They are usually far better than those made from "dupe" negatives. The reversal duplicating process involves contact printing from the original and reversal of the exposed film. The "dupe" negative system requires that a negative be made and prints taken from it. This extra step tends to lower the final quality. At present, neither Kodacolor nor 8mm. film is duplicated by the manufacturers, although for 8mm. one laboratory, at least, will undertake the job. Important technical difficulties stand in the way of duplicating Kodacolor. Enlarged prints, that is, 16mm. film enlarged to 35mm. size for screening in standard motion picture projectors, can be produced by several laboratories located in the large cities of the country. This process is used when a lucky amateur happens to film an important news event which the professionals have missed. In this case, the film is taken to the laboratory, an enlarged negative is produced and the required number of prints are run off. Obviously, the amateur's film must first have been processed by the manufacturer and the results are naturally not satisfactory enough for any except emergency use. While this disposes in a general way of the matter of reversal film, there still remains negative film, with which amateurs in the advanced ranks sometimes work. Their claims for this preference run from the familiar "it's the way the professionals do it" to claims for better exposure correction and smaller cost in