It's been over a year since I've had the opportunity to shoot with my friend Rob. Recently, Rob invited me to tag along on a shoot with a local Hair and Make-up Model, Melissa "Violet". Usually I don't shoot during the week, but I recently purchased 5 rolls of Lomography CINE200 35mm film and wanted to test it out. CINE200 is cutdown Tungsten movie film packaged for 35mm camera use similar to the CineStill 400T film I shot last year. Taking Rob up on his offer to shoot Melissa gave me the opportunity to shoot both rolls of Tungsten film and compare the nuances of both brands.
I met up with Rob and Melissa at 6:30 and loaded a roll of CineStill 400T shot at 200 ISO. With the sun setting, I figured it would help balance the Tungsten Film. We moved pretty quickly and I shot through 36 exposures within an hour. For me, shooting film is a more thoughtful process than shooting digital, mostly because of the Picture Preview capabilities with digital cameras. Film makes me pause and consider composition, shadows, poses and the color palette of the surroundings.
I then loaded the roll of CINE200, shot at 100 ISO, and shot for about 40 minutes. I rewound the film and opened the back of the camera, only to close it quickly when I realized the film was still on the take-up reel. After closing the back and rewinding the film, it was still on the take-up reel. Similar to the big fish that got away, I'm sure "that" roll had the best images. After several attempts to rewind the film, I pulled the roll out and threw it on the ground.
I then loaded a roll of Portra 160 and shot for another 40 minutes with no issues when rewinding that roll of film. (The two images below are Portra 160)
The following weekend, I jumped on the Vespa, loaded up another roll of CINE200 in the F5 and shot around downtown Bakersfield. (The following 4 images are CINE200)
I had both rolls developed at the local Walgreens and after viewing the images, I wasn't impressed, but after viewing my buddy Rob's images I think I need to be patient and have an actual "film lab" develop the images.
What Did I Learn?
- With respect to shooting both Tungsten Films, nothing really and I'll chalk up the CINE200 incident as a fluke since it didn't happen to Rob or me on my second attempt.
- Pay for a real film lab to develop your film, the One Hour places are very little Quality Control.
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