First time shooting this film and like the look. One online review call Kodak ProImage 100 "the marriage between Portra and Ektar". I tend to agree.
Those are pretty great colors out of Pro Image 100, I've always struggled with it. The second shot shows the typical cyan cast in gray cement I always get despite all the other colors being fine.
The first batch of our vacation photos came back; the B&W ones (on XP2 400) came out much nicer than the color, largely because I made the mistake of testing two rolls of Cinestill 400D; I've heard terrible things about Cinestill in general but Cinestill says the 400D was less prone to light leaks and static discharge...based on these two rolls they must be smoking something as more than half my photos had light leaks. I've used other ISO 400 films in this same camera before with no leaks, and the roll of Ektar I put in after those two rolls of Cinestill had no light leaks. So it's not the camera. I loaded and unloaded both rolls of Cinestill in near-complete darkness. It must be the film.
bjhurley wrote:
The first batch of our vacation photos came back; the B&W ones (on XP2 400) came out much nicer than the color, largely because I made the mistake of testing two rolls of Cinestill 400D; I've heard terrible things about Cinestill in general but Cinestill says the 400D was less prone to light leaks and static discharge...based on these two rolls they must be smoking something as more than half my photos had light leaks. I've used other ISO 400 films in this same camera before with no leaks, and the roll of Ektar I put in after those two rolls of Cinestill had no light leaks. So it's not the camera. I loaded and unloaded both rolls of Cinestill in near-complete darkness. It must be the film.
Nice pics! I used to love Cinestill 800, but gave up on the brand after the ongoing issue with light leaks. What is strange is at the beginning when I first tried them, I was not getting light leaks. And no matter what camera I used.
Time to get a motor drive for the F2. That and a 180 2.8 Ai-S.
When I had the Df, I tried a Tamron 15-30. Even with one of those seatbelt sized straps from Peak Design, it was like a cinder block on my shoulder. I gave it to a friend to use on his D750 that spends a lot of time on a tripod.
