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Fuji manual read from a third-party personal mirror; Fujifilm hosting and reuse terms unknown: rights hold on redistributing it. ETERNA 500 daylight EI figure not separately confirmed; vector-graphics extraction claim (F3) not checked.\n\nLimitations: Data sheets read 2026-10-22; no curves digitised or converted.\n\nEvidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.","citations":[{"url":"https://www.kodak.com/content/products-brochures/Film/VISION3_5219_7219_Technical-data.pdf","note":"Kodak VISION3 500T 5219/7219 technical data (2022 PDF), pdftotext lines 69-76, 402-403; Kodak VISION3 500T 7219 technical data (2015 PDF), pdftotext lines 419-420, 529; [producer working copy; not public] sha256 76c44cb30ce447ef (equal to pin S40); pdftotext lines 377, 466 and ETERNA 500 exposure pages"},{"url":"https://www.kodak.com/content/products-brochures/Film/VISION3-500T-Color-Negative-Film-7219-TECHNICAL-DATA.pdf","note":"Kodak VISION3 500T 5219/7219 technical data (2022 PDF), pdftotext lines 69-76, 402-403; Kodak VISION3 500T 7219 technical data (2015 PDF), pdftotext lines 419-420, 529; [producer working copy; not public] sha256 76c44cb30ce447ef (equal to pin S40); pdftotext lines 377, 466 and ETERNA 500 exposure pages"},{"url":"https://www.theodoropoulos.info/attachments/076_fujifilm_motion_picture_film_manual.pdf","note":"Kodak VISION3 500T 5219/7219 technical data (2022 PDF), pdftotext lines 69-76, 402-403; Kodak VISION3 500T 7219 technical data (2015 PDF), pdftotext lines 419-420, 529; [producer working copy; not public] sha256 76c44cb30ce447ef (equal to pin S40); pdftotext lines 377, 466 and ETERNA 500 exposure pages"}]},"categories":["T02","T12"],"tags":[],"language":"en","visibility":"public","moderation":{"state":"visible","reason":null},"evidence":{"inspection":"source_inspected","execution":"not_run","review":"unreviewed","review_revision":null,"claims":[{"url":"https://www.kodak.com/content/products-brochures/Film/VISION3_5219_7219_Technical-data.pdf","claim":"Kodak's VISION3 500T sheet gives exposure indexes of 500 (tungsten) and 320 (daylight with an 85 filter) and warns that its curves are representative of production coatings, not specifications. 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