I’ve been on a quest to be more analogue recently, so decided to pick up my old film camera, a Canon EOS 500N 35mm with a 50mm lens which is my favourite of all the lenses. I looked up what film is available these days as I wasn’t sure, I didn’t want to just get a Kodak coloured film and also didn’t want to shoot on black and white. I came across a post on; I think on instagram about CineStill 400d film, and the depth of colours really popped, but with a dream like quality I fell in love with, so I had to grab some.
My plan was to shoot photos all over Christmas and then have them processed, <Insert laughing emoji!> I think I got maybe 6 photos! So then I thought “I’ll photograph everything and I’ll always carry my camera!” <face palm> So that didn’t happen either! So here we are in June, and I finally finished the roll!
I now also have another camera on the go as I had a Kodak Ultra F9S for my birthday in January which came with film. That also still hasn’t been finished!
We went to Trentham Monkey Forest in April (post coming soon on that) and I did remember my camera! I absolutely love the depth of colour and dream like quality on these photos, the depth of those shadows is incredible, you can really see the variants in soft and more harsher shadows that often can be muddied.
I love how the colours look in the natural light of the sun dappling through the trees, it handled this beautifully. I also really love how the colours pop during twilight too, (photo 2) it really captured the mood of the sky during sunset whilst keeping the shadows of the trees dark. The softness and ethereal feeling it evokes in photo 3, I’m in love with this film. Colour film was never something I got to grips with, I always preferred black and white; that maybe more because at college and university I was only able to develop b&w, so didn’t spend much time using colour film. Overall I love this film and with fine grain, a soft colour palette with rich warm tones; it is absolutely a film I will be reaching for again and again.
I used Stuck in film to process the film, which was around £12.99 for the processing, jpg downloads and negatives. I decided against prints as I wasn’t sure how they all would turn out, it’s been a long time since I’ve used a film camera. They’ve been really good and kept me up to date during the process, and when the negatives and new film will be delivered.
I am going to do my best to remember to take my camera everywhere from here on out, as I really love the quality of film.
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