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Shostka Colour Positive (1950s)
Soviet colour prints of the Agfacolor-type era.
Shostka's 1950s colour positive as a labelled surrogate on TsP-8R's curves and dyes, for Soviet colour features of the 1950s. Original vs Ashigrain.
At a glance
- Introduced
- c. 1948
- Process
- Soviet colour-positive development (not documented for this era)
- Maximum density
- ≈ 2.8
About the film
Ashigrain's Shostka colour positive stands for the colour print film of the Shostka film factory in the years after the Second World War, but no source read names a grade of it or dates it.
Soviet film-stock production at Shostka began in 1931, according to the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, and Soviet production of multilayer colour film began in 1948. Before the war, Factory No. 6 in Shostka had made the matrix and blank films for Soviet three-colour printing, writes Nikolai Mayorov. Mayorov writes that from 1947 Factory No. 3 in Shostka ran equipment dismantled in Germany, making the colour negative film DS-1 (ДС-1) to Agfa technology. Trophy Agfacolor stock and German technology let the Soviet Union adopt the negative-positive colour process, and most Soviet films of the 1950s were in colour. By 1952 Factories No. 3 and No. 8 had developed the tungsten negative LN-2 (ЛН-2), and No. 3 had begun the daylight negative DS-2 (ДС-2). The factory, later known as Svema, went on to make the TsP-8R and TsP-11 colour positives.
Sources for this history
- Николай Майоров. «Цвет советского кино» (2011), Музей ЦСДФ
- Большая советская энциклопедия: Кинопромышленность, booksite.ru
The look
Shostka's 1950s colour positive was a Soviet print film from Factory No. 3, which from 1947 made colour film to Agfa technology. No grade name or curve of it survives in the sources. Ashigrain's version is a labelled surrogate, a model inspired by the print rather than a reproduction.
Best for
- Soviet colour features of the 1950s
- Printing Svema DS-5M negatives
- Comparing early and late Soviet 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.
The same Kodak Vision3 500T night frame, printed on each film.
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Science & sources
A labelled surrogate inspired by the print, not a reproduction of it, shown after Svema DS-5M. No grade name, curve or dye data of a 1950s Shostka colour positive is registered: its characteristic curves, spectral sensitivity and dyes are those of Svema TsP-8R, the same factory's later colour positive, a proxy, unchanged.
The following trademark notice is provided in English.
Svema is named only to identify the film; its trademarks belong to their respective owners, whose identity is unknown.
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 of a 1950s Shostka colour positive, rather than a reproduction of a documented film. No grade name, date, curve or dye of it is in a registered source.
- The characteristic curves, spectral sensitivity and dyes are those of Свема ЦП-8Р, the same factory's later colour positive, a proxy, unchanged.
- Era, process and printing balance are assumptions and are not modelled.
- The neutral aim is the proxy's assumed grey-balanced aim (0.890 / 0.905 / 1.080, Status A); no laboratory aim is published.
- 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
- Reconstructed: Гордийчук И. Б., Пелль В. Г. Справочник кинооператора (1979), 1979 edition, p. 189