As a very casual photographer this was great - captures colours so vividly, even in lower lights and using a point-and-shoot Ilford Sprite.
Contrasty and fine grained rendering, this film really added to the heritage vibe of the Shrewsbury streets where I first tried this lens out. Handling shadows and highlights well on bright spring day.
Developed and scanned by the excellent folks at AW.
first roll through my new Olympus couldn't have turned out better
Not sure I’d use again!
It’s a nice surprise for sure but some boxes much better than others!
Love this film stock. I was religiously on HP5 but this has changed my mind completely. Beautiful fine grain and still super versatile.
This film is great for some lovely black & white photos, for indoor and outdoor shots.
I enjoy shooting this film in the winter, finding that it works well with cooler tones. The few rolls I shot in summer came out with skies blown out and very dark shadows.
I haven't had a bad exposure with the Pentax 67, this film seems to expose differently on 35mm, it's much better to work with in 120.
Despite doom-laden forecasts of the end of analogue photography new film launches seem to pop up at regular intervals. Most of them unfortunately aren't 'new', just rebadged existing films. Not necessarily a bad thing if if keeps people interested in film tough. Film Ferrania isn't really 'new' either their P30 and P33 cine film stock was around in the 60s and 70s. The clever folk at Ferrania have relaunched these lovely films using a combination of rejuvenating the old coating plant in Italy and modern technology. I must admit I was a bit sceptical - I'm not now! I treated myself to a couple of rolls of their new P33 160iso film. I've only shot one roll so far, on a trip to the Isle of Arran, Scotland. All I can say is that it's a lovely film. I exposed it at it's box speed of 160iso and developed it in Ilford ID11, diluted 1:1 for 11 minutes at 20 degreesC. It holds both shadows and highlights well with good mid-tone separation. It's quite high contrast - more than FP4+ but less than it's P30 stablemate. The images I'm happiest with were taken in overcast light where the contrast has given them punch. Grain is visible but not obtrusive in a 10x8in enlargement. It's not the cheapest film out there but you certainly get what you pay for - I'll certainly be using more of it. The sample shots are all scanned from prints on Ilford DeLuxe RC paper (I don't have a negative scanner).
Having so much fun with this camera. Fits in my pocket and it is cheap enough to not worry about it breaking or losing it. Took it on holiday to Thailand and it survived the heat, humidity and salty air. I even dropped it a few times and still worked as expected (although I stuffed the plastic).
You can get some great shots if you:
1. Keep everything you want in focus at arms length
2. Use the correct speed film.
3. Understand the limitations of the camera
My only complaint is that it is easy to forget you had the flash on and end up with a dead battery. While the quality of the photos isn't even close to my main camera I have captured some of my most cherished memories with this camera. While it was pricey for what it is I have no regrets.
Took this to Thailand to capture rain forests and was a bit let down as the film isn't particularly versatile and isn't worth the price unless you must have this look. Partly my fault for using this in a Kodak Ektar H35N as I didn't want to risk my main film camera to the sea. Great for greens and that is pretty much it. Skin tones are too pink and a couple of my shots came back very pink (I believe these were at the start of the roll).
Truly, after just using it once this is now my favourite B&W Film.
Good value, all round film. Produces excellent colours in all conditions. My take anywhere film.
Super quality for what you pay. Hope the prices won't keep going up as it's a gem.
Nice to use when it's cloudy outside. You can often get a good price for this film which is reassuring.
Really love this film, great value for the price.
Images are fine as always, but the increase in delivery price doesn't seem to make sense to me because it seems they doubled the price for nothing. Disappointed! They promised to looked into it but I don't think they have.
Since getting back into film shooting I'd been using high-street chain stores for developing film as it was just quite convenient to get a quick turnaround. However, I always thought they came out oddly blurry and just not sharp at all. This led to me giving analogue wonderland a try as I'd bought some film from them in the past but always felt it was a hassle sending film off to be developed.
After using them for the first time I can happily say the process was incredibly quick and easy the postman picked up my film from my door with no label printing required from me.
When I got the scans back I am incredibly impressed with the quality of the images I got back. I was previously unsure if the camera was just outputting bad quality images due to it being an old point and shoot camera, but it was actually just the high street shops developing the film clearly did not put much effort into getting quality images from the film.
Will definitely be using Analogue wonderland for my future film developing.
Ultramax performs well. If you're using a point and shoot this will work perfectly for pretty much any situation. The only reason I knocked off a star is the fact it just isn't Gold.
If you're wanting to shoot something a little different this is fun. I wouldn't shoot any portraits with it but it's great if you want to suck the vibrancy out of everything.
I love this stuff, really consistent results and I love the colour saturation. I've shot so much of this stuff and would definitely recommend it.
LOAD IT IN SUBDUED LIGHT - the canisters are plastic and you can get leaks at the start of the roll.
No DX coding but most cameras that need it will default to 50 or 100 ISO so Elektra will still look good.
If you want dreamy saturated images this is it. I don't trust Fuji so shoot it while you can and if you're travelling somewhere sunny those blue skies are going to look great.
That extra stop of light really helps is shine. I miss those Fuji greens.
Give it lots of light and you'll get some fun purple results. The kind of film to use when you're shooting where you've shot a lot before just for some different results.
Does what is says, it makes everything red. I don't regret shooting it. but I don't think I will again. I've enjoyed shooting Lomography's other experimental film stocks but this one just isn't as fun for me.
