# Everyday 400

Film · green shadows, magenta highlights

Everyday 400 is the cheap, do-anything color roll sold everywhere. It gives your picture its signature split, green in the shadows and a magenta-pink lift in the highlights.

## Controls

### Stock

- **Strength** (hero knob, 0 to 100, rests at 100). The hero. How much of the stock's color and tone goes onto your picture. Grain and **Fade** stay on at any setting.
- **Exposure** (Fader, −3.0 EV to +3.0 EV, rests at 0 EV). Over or under, in stops. Negative film forgives a lot. Over goes soft and pastel, under goes muddy, with grain in the shadows.

### Lab

- **Push / pull** (Fader, Pull 1.0 to Push +3.0, rests at Box speed). Push develops the roll longer. Contrast climbs, blacks crush and the grain gets bigger and heavier. Pull goes the other way, softer, with lifted blacks and lighter grain.
- **Lab** (Select: Standard / Crisp / Soft / Print / Flat). How the lab scans or prints it. **Crisp** is punchy, with golden skin and cool shadows. **Soft** is gentle and peachy. **Print** has deep blacks and pushes foliage toward yellow and reds toward orange. **Flat** is low contrast, ready to grade.

### Format

- **Format** (Select: Half frame / 35mm / 120 / Cine 35). The film size, which sets the grain. A small negative is enlarged more, so **Half frame** has the biggest grain and **120** the finest. **Cine 35** is a touch coarser than **35mm**.
- **Gate weave** (Knob, 0 to 100, rests at 0). The frame drifts and bobs, like film running through a movie camera's gate. It crops in a hair so the edges never show, and it loops cleanly.

### Color

- **Warmth** (Fader, -100 to +100, rests at 0). Cooler or warmer, on top of the stock's own color.
- **Fade** (Knob, 0 to 100, rests at 6). Lifts the blacks to a soft, slightly cool gray and dims the whites a touch, like an old print.

### Grain

- **Grain** (Knob, 0 to 100, rests at 35). How much grain. It gathers in the midtones and shadows, thins out in the highlights, and changes every frame.
- **Grain size** (Knob, 0 to 100, rests at 32). How big each grain is. **Format** and **Push / pull** scale it too.

### Halation

- **Halation** (Knob, 0 to 100, rests at 0). The red glow that blooms around bright highlights, where light bounces back through the film. The hottest lights glow orange.
- **Spread** (Knob, 0 to 100, rests at 40). How far the glow reaches.
- **Threshold** (Knob, 0 to 100, rests at 60). How bright a highlight has to be before it glows. Low, and most of the picture glows. High, and only the hottest lights do. **Exposure** moves it too.

### Light

- **Light source** (Select: Matched / Tungsten / Fluorescent / Sodium / Mixed). The light the scene was shot under, as film sees it. **Matched** is clean. **Tungsten** goes orange, **Fluorescent** goes green, **Sodium** drains the color to street-lamp orange, and **Mixed** puts green in the shadows under warm highlights.

### Darkroom

- **Bleach bypass** (Knob, 0 to 100, rests at 0). Skips the bleach, so silver stays in the film. Color drains, contrast climbs and the picture turns hard and silvery.
- **Expired** (Knob, 0 to 100, rests at 0). Old stock. The blacks fog up, contrast sinks, the picture drifts toward the **Drift** color and a fine noise flickers over it.
- **Drift** (Select: Magenta / Cyan / Green). Which way the expired film turns. **Magenta**, **Cyan** or **Green**. It shows only with **Expired** up.

### Scan

- **Scanner** (Select: Lab / Flatbed / Drum). How the film is scanned. **Lab** is clean, **Flatbed** is soft and a little lifted, **Drum** is crisp and sharpened.
- **Scan sharpen** (Knob, 0 to 100, rests at 0). Scanner sharpening on top of the scan. A little brings up detail, a lot leaves bright edges and crunchy grain.
- **Dust** (Knob, 0 to 100, rests at 0). White specks of dust on the scan. Past halfway, a hair lands on the frame too. They hold still through the loop.

## Presets

- **Bleach Bypass**: Silver left in: color drops, contrast climbs.
- **Found Roll**: Expired years ago: fogged blacks, magenta drift, dust.
- **Office Light**: Shot under fluorescent tubes: the green cast film sees.
- **Sodium Street**: Orange street lamps: color nearly gone, glow around the lights.
- **Flatbed Scan**: Home scanner: soft, a little lifted, a speck or two.
- **Drum Scan**: Crisp drum scan with scanner sharpening.
- **Expired Cyan**: Old stock drifting cyan.