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It depends on the film stocks in use (throughout the duplication chain from camera negative to release print), the optics through which it is exposed, duplicated, and printed, and the densitometric and sensitometric quality control in processing.
I was very disappointed when Kodak chose to discontinue 2393 and keep 2383 as its only color release print stock. 2393 was significantly more expensive, but it resolved much denser blacks and more detail in low contrast images: in short, it unlocked more image information from the source element. Given that release printing on film is now a boutique, special interest thing (and it was clear when Kodak decided to discontinue 2393 that this was the way things were going), for which customers are willing to pay more than a DCP-only release would cost anyways, I can't understand why 2393 wasn't the release print stock they kept in production, if they felt that there was only a market for one color and one b/w (2302) option.
I was very disappointed when Kodak chose to discontinue 2393 and keep 2383 as its only color release print stock. 2393 was significantly more expensive, but it resolved much denser blacks and more detail in low contrast images: in short, it unlocked more image information from the source element. Given that release printing on film is now a boutique, special interest thing (and it was clear when Kodak decided to discontinue 2393 that this was the way things were going), for which customers are willing to pay more than a DCP-only release would cost anyways, I can't understand why 2393 wasn't the release print stock they kept in production, if they felt that there was only a market for one color and one b/w (2302) option.
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