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Night Cine

Film · ISO 800 · 3200K

Night Cine is motion picture film, balanced for tungsten light and fast enough for the street after dark, shot in a stills camera without the backing layer that stops light bouncing inside it. Every bright light grows a red glow, and your picture takes on the cool, grainy color of a night on film.

Before · AfterThe sample picture with no effectNight Cine at its default settings

The sample with the Night Cine 800 preset. Drag to compare, or press Play with it to tune it live. Open as a shared look

What it's like

Load a roll of cinema stock into a 35mm camera and walk around at night. Under street lamps and shop signs the color holds, the shadows go cool, and every light carries a red-orange halo where it bounced back through the film. Night Cine is that roll. It's also the first roll in the Film family. The roll presets swap in other stocks, and every roll carries the same Light, Darkroom and Scan sections.

When to reach for it

  • Night shots, neon and headlights. Bright lights make the halation sing.
  • A warm, filmic finish on clean digital video. Add a little Gate weave and it moves like a film camera.
  • Lab looks on any roll. Bleach bypass, Expired stock and the Scanner each change the story the film tells.

How it works

Exposure and halation happen first, in linear light, the way light hits the emulsion. Then the stock's own curve rolls the highlights into a soft shoulder and sets its contrast and color. The lab prints it back, and a negative forgives a lot, so over reads as pastel and under as muddy, grainy shadows. Grain goes on last, heaviest in the midtones and shadows.

Controls

21 controls in 9 sections, in the order Tune shows them.

Exposure

  • FaderExposure −3.0 EV to +3.0 EV · rests at 0 EV

    Exposure in stops, before the lab. Over goes soft and pastel, under goes muddy and grainy.

  • SelectLight TungstenDaylightDay + 85

    What the scene is lit by. The film is balanced for tungsten. Daylight turns it blue-teal. Day + 85 puts the orange correction filter on, which fixes the color and costs two thirds of a stop.

Lab

  • FaderPush / pull Pull 1.0 to Push +3.0 · rests at Box speed

    Push develops longer for more contrast, crushed blacks and bigger grain. Pull goes softer and lifted, with finer grain.

  • SelectLab StandardCrispSoftPrintFlat

    Who printed it. Crisp is a punchy scan with cool shadows. Soft is gentle with peachy skin. Print is cinema print stock with deep blacks. Flat is low contrast, for grading later.

Format

  • SelectFormat Half frame35mm120Cine 35

    The size of the negative, which sets the grain. Half frame is coarsest, 120 is finest.

  • KnobGate weave 0 to 100 · rests at 0

    The frame drifts in the gate, like a movie camera. It steps at 24 frames a second and loops clean.

Halation

  • Hero knobHalation 0 to 100 · rests at 65

    The hero. The red glow around every bright light. It warms to orange where the light is strongest, and the light itself stays clean.

  • KnobSpread 0 to 100 · rests at 50

    How far the glow reaches.

  • KnobThreshold 0 to 100 · rests at 55

    How bright a light has to be to glow. Higher keeps it to the hottest lights.

  • KnobRolloff 0 to 100 · rests at 55

    How the print eases into white. Higher lifts the midtones and rounds off the highlights.

Color

  • FaderBalance -100 to +100 · rests at -20

    The color balance. Up is warmer, down is cooler. Night Cine rests a little cool.

  • KnobFade 0 to 100 · rests at 20

    Lifts the blacks to a cool gray and dims the whites, like an old print.

Grain

  • KnobGrain 0 to 100 · rests at 35

    How much grain. It sits in the midtones and shadows and thins out in the highlights.

  • KnobGrain size 0 to 100 · rests at 30

    How big the grain is.

Light

  • SelectLight source MatchedTungstenFluorescentSodiumMixed

    The light the scene was shot under, as the film sees it. Tungsten goes orange, Fluorescent goes green, Sodium drains the color to a deep orange, Mixed puts green in the shadows and warmth in the highlights.

Darkroom

  • KnobBleach bypass 0 to 100 · rests at 0

    Skips the bleach and leaves the silver in. Color drains, contrast climbs.

  • KnobExpired 0 to 100 · rests at 0

    Old stock. The blacks fog, the contrast flattens and the color drifts, with fresh noise on every frame.

  • SelectDrift MagentaCyanGreen

    Which way the expired stock drifts. Magenta, Cyan or Green.

Scan

  • SelectScanner LabFlatbedDrum

    How the film was scanned. Lab is straight. Flatbed is soft, a little lifted and cool. Drum is crisp.

  • KnobScan sharpen 0 to 100 · rests at 0

    Scanner sharpening. A little adds bite, a lot leaves bright edges on every line.

  • KnobDust 0 to 100 · rests at 0

    White specks on the scan, the dust on a negative. Past halfway a hair lands too.

Presets

25 presets. Each one opens in the studio as a shared look. Add it on top of your picture, or save it to My looks.

01Night Cine 800Film · ISO 800 · 3200K02Day Cine 400Film · ISO 400 · daylight03Portrait 400Film · soft warm skin04Portrait 800Film · warm skin, a bit more punch05Vivid 100Film · saturated, finest grain06Sunny 200Film · warm consumer07Everyday 400Film · green shadows, magenta highlights08Pastel 400Film · airy mint09X-Pro C-41Film · slide in C-4110Soft Slide 100Film · soft reversal, calm skin11Slide 100Film · clean, faithful reversal12Vivid Slide 50Film · vivid reversal13Mono 400Film · pushed black and white14Press 400Film · punchy black and white15Reportage DigitalDigital · muted, documentary16True Print DigitalDigital · faithful print17Snapshot NegDigital · hard color contrast18Color IR E-6Film · false-color infrared19Bleach BypassSilver left in: color drops, contrast climbs.20Found RollExpired years ago: fogged blacks, magenta drift, dust.21Office LightShot under fluorescent tubes: the green cast film sees.22Sodium StreetOrange street lamps: color nearly gone, glow around the lights.23Flatbed ScanHome scanner: soft, a little lifted, a speck or two.24Drum ScanCrisp drum scan with scanner sharpening.25Expired CyanOld stock drifting cyan.