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Eastman Color Print Film 5385
Kodak's 1960s colour print, brighter reds and greens.
Kodak's 1960s release print as a labelled surrogate built on EXR 5386, for 1960s period drama; the brighter reds and greens reported for it are not modelled. Original vs Ashigrain.
At a glance
- Introduced
- 1962
- Discontinued
- Process
- ECP
- Maximum density
- ≈ 4.0
About the film
Eastman Color Print Film 5385, with its 16 mm twin 7385, was Kodak's colour release-print film of the 1960s.
Kodak's chronology and Henry Wilhelm's table of Eastman Color print films both date it to 1962, and the historian Sergei Filippov says it arrived that year with the 5251 colour negative. In 35 mm the change took several years: Kodak says 5385 replaced 5382 only in 1966, and Filippov says 5382 stayed in production for four more years after 1962. Kodak credits the new film with better definition and speed than its predecessors. Quoting trade and SMPTE papers of 1962, Filippov writes that it rendered reds brighter and less purple, greens more saturated, blues less cyan and yellows less orange than the older print film. Those papers also reported better skies, foliage and skin tones. Kodak says the film was discontinued in 1972, replaced by 7381 in 16 mm and by a new 5381 in 35 mm.
Sources for this history
- Chronology of Film, Eastman Kodak Company
- The Permanence and Care of Color Photographs (1993), chapter 9: The Permanent Preservation of Color Motion Pictures, Henry Wilhelm with Carol Brower
- Когда и как цвет в кино стал современным? (АРТИКУЛЬТ 61, 1-2026, pp. 92–105), С. А. Филиппов
The look
Eastman Color Print Film 5385 arrived in 1962 and took over Kodak's 35 mm release printing from 5382 during the 1960s. Papers of the time credited it with brighter reds and more saturated greens. Ashigrain's version is a labelled surrogate, a model inspired by the print rather than a reproduction.
Best for
- 1960s release-print looks
- Period drama set in the 1960s
- Comparing 1960s and 1990s Kodak prints
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The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film. On this two-colour print (a labelled surrogate) every colour falls between blue-green and red-orange: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and which lights keep their hue.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film. On this blue-sensitive black-and-white print the colour negative turns grey: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how dark the reds and greens print.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film. On this blue-sensitive black-and-white print the colour negative turns grey: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how dark the red neon and skin print.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film. On this black-and-white print the colour negative turns grey: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the coloured lights and skin translate to grey.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film. On this blue-sensitive black-and-white print the colour negative turns grey: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the coloured lights and skin translate to grey.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film. On this two-colour print (a labelled surrogate) every colour falls between a blue and a red dye: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and which lights keep their hue.
The same Vision3 500T night frame on each print film: how deep the blacks go, how the highlights roll off and how the colour separates.
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Science & sources
A labelled surrogate inspired by the 1962 print, not a reproduction of it, shown after Eastman Color Negative 5247. No data of this film is registered: its characteristic curves, spectral sensitivity and dyes are those of Eastman EXR Color Print Film 5386, a proxy, unchanged, so the colour differences reported for it are not modelled. Its ECP process is an assumption and is not modelled.
Response curves and the evidence behind the model
Compare manufacturer data with Ashigrain’s response on the same axes. These curves show how the model is calibrated to its sources; they do not establish a match to photographed film.
Characteristic response
Model limits
These images show the film model in use. Spectral response, lighting and viewing conditions include approximations. Halation, bloom, grain size, weave and flicker are not fully measured for each film. The look of real film also depends on development and print timing.
- This is a labelled surrogate inspired by Eastman Color Print Film 5385, rather than a reproduction of it. No sensitometric or spectral data of this film is registered.
- The characteristic curves, spectral sensitivity and dyes are those of Eastman EXR Color Print Film 5386 (Kodak H-1-5386, 1999), a proxy, unchanged; its curves were measured in ECP-2B, not in this film's process.
- The better definition and speed Kodak credits to 5385, and the colour differences reported in 1962, are not quantified by any source and are not modelled.
- Process ECP is an assumption; process is not modelled.
- The neutral aim is the proxy's Status A aim (1.10 / 1.06 / 1.03); no aim of this film is registered.
- The source gives no printer lamp or filter spectra. Their spectral response is approximated.
- The available sources do not measure veiling flare during projection. The model approximates its contribution to lifted blacks on screen, so the result is not a measured projection contrast.
Reciprocity: not modelled. Exposure time has no effect on this film.
Film guide: assumptions and practical choices
This preview combines the print film with the named camera negative. In this comparison, the print has no separate exposure index or measured grain response.
Sources
- Characteristic curves: EASTMAN EXR Color Print Film 5386 / 7386 / 2386 / 3386 Technical Data, H-1-5386, February 1999, p. 3
- Process: Eastman Kodak: Chronology of Film (History of Film), live page www.kodak.com/en/motion/page/chronology-of-film/ as served 2026-10-28, p. 1