john_van_v
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I got a few rite aid rolls via eprey not knowing what to expect. They were just-expired, and 200 ASA.
I bought them as an experiment, and reluctantly, as they are a false economy. I pay $2 at the local drug chain (not rite aid, but walgreens) per roll w/o extras, and so the film deal only saves me around $1 as I usually pay about $1.50 per roll. divided by 24 pictures, that is not a lot per picture.
But I have a lot of untested (pretty old) cameras... and I feel bad putting perfecty good art film, such as Superia or Kodak Gold, into a potentially broken camera.
The results:
The color is a little washed in comparison to Superia, and lacks the rich subtly of GOLD. I saturated the pictures to the point of the "blue noise" to show the full color potential.
I generally saturate my pictures to the max, as technically speaking, the colors are in the film whether you see them in the picture or not. And I believe in showing what is on the film, just as what I see -- the art of photojournalism!
I converted one to B&W, hoping that this might be a replacement for C-41 B&W film, typically Kodak.
Using the rock photo as an example, Kodak bw400cn would have gotten the white of the rock, where this film seemed to over-expose. This is odd as the alkaline battery I was using was showing less that 1.3V implying that the camera should have been under-exposing.
Also, I was shooting at dusk under an overcast sky. Results might be different in bright sun, which generally has been problematic for me, especially with Oly lenses.
I will test it w/ a Jupiter-8 lens, which should give better color contrast, and then very likely run through all the many cameras I bought by low-balling on eprey.
For reference, the light came through an Oly f1.4
I bought them as an experiment, and reluctantly, as they are a false economy. I pay $2 at the local drug chain (not rite aid, but walgreens) per roll w/o extras, and so the film deal only saves me around $1 as I usually pay about $1.50 per roll. divided by 24 pictures, that is not a lot per picture.
But I have a lot of untested (pretty old) cameras... and I feel bad putting perfecty good art film, such as Superia or Kodak Gold, into a potentially broken camera.
The results:
The color is a little washed in comparison to Superia, and lacks the rich subtly of GOLD. I saturated the pictures to the point of the "blue noise" to show the full color potential.
I generally saturate my pictures to the max, as technically speaking, the colors are in the film whether you see them in the picture or not. And I believe in showing what is on the film, just as what I see -- the art of photojournalism!
I converted one to B&W, hoping that this might be a replacement for C-41 B&W film, typically Kodak.
Using the rock photo as an example, Kodak bw400cn would have gotten the white of the rock, where this film seemed to over-expose. This is odd as the alkaline battery I was using was showing less that 1.3V implying that the camera should have been under-exposing.
Also, I was shooting at dusk under an overcast sky. Results might be different in bright sun, which generally has been problematic for me, especially with Oly lenses.
I will test it w/ a Jupiter-8 lens, which should give better color contrast, and then very likely run through all the many cameras I bought by low-balling on eprey.
For reference, the light came through an Oly f1.4
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