Kodak Vision3 500T 7219

Vision3 500T was the first stock in the Vision3 family. Kodak launched 5219/7219 in 2007 and used it to introduce Dye Layering Technology and Sub-Micron Technology to motion picture cinematographers. The 7219 designation is the 16mm cut. 5219 covers 35mm and 65mm. Tungsten-balanced at 3200K and rated ISO 500, it is the fast stock that handles interiors, night exteriors, and practical-light scenes where 250D or 200T runs out of shutter.

ShotOnWhat lists more than 370 theatrical features shot on 5219. The Nolan filmography alone covers Inception, The Dark Knight Rises, Interstellar, Dunkirk, Tenet, and Oppenheimer, all with Hoyte van Hoytema or Wally Pfister handling night and interior work on 500T. Yorgos Lanthimos shot The Favourite, Poor Things, and Kinds of Kindness on it with Robbie Ryan. The grain is finer than the discontinued Vision2 500T 5218 it replaced, even when push-processed a stop.

For still photographers, CineStill 800T is Vision3 500T with the remjet removed and rated up two thirds of a stop. The red bloom CineStill is famous for comes from the remjet removal, not the underlying emulsion. If you want 500T as Kodak intended it, you buy 5219 from a short-end seller or work with a lab like FPP that re-spools it. Process is ECN-2.

Use it where you need the speed. Tungsten balance means daylight asks for an 85B warming filter and a two-thirds stop loss, or you accept a warm cast and correct in scan. Night street, interior available-light, and stage work are where this stock earns its catalog price.

Available in 35mm, Super 16, 16mm, and 65mm through Kodak's catalog. Still photographers usually buy it as CineStill 800T in 35mm and 120.

Reciprocity exponent is 1.10. A metered 30-second exposure becomes about 35 seconds at the negative; Zone Light Meter applies the correction past one second. The math is conservative because Kodak does not publish a still-photography reciprocity curve. Past a minute, bracket.