Look At The New Eastman Kodacolor
All the rage is now that Eastman Kodak has released a new color film, after selling the brands to what is now Kodak Alaris.
The “Kodacolor” brand was previously what morphed into Kodak Gold in the 80s. The New Kodacolor is anyone’s guess, and comes in 100 and 100 ISO speed films. I’ve purchased a roll of each and have since shot both rolls, and will blog about it shortly.
All the rage is now that Eastman Kodak has released a new color film, after selling the brands to what is now Kodak Alaris.
The “Kodacolor” brand was previously what morphed into Kodak Gold in the 80s. The New Kodacolor is anyone’s guess, and comes in 100 and 100 ISO speed films. I’ve purchased a roll of each and have since shot both rolls, and will blog about it shortly.
Kodacolor 100 - Beer and Cameras Halloween edition in South Pasadena
Kodacolor 200 - Dodgers World Series Parade.
Filmstock Review: Arista Pan 100
This is a cheap film stock, currently on sale, for 5 rolls for $20($4/roll) at Freestyle Photography Supply in Los Angeles. The price was right, so I’d thought I’d see what I could do. So far I’ve shot 3 rolls of the stuff. One at box speed, and the remaining two pushed to 400 and 1600. Perhaps next roll I might try pulling.
For a cheap film, it works pretty well. Especially if you are just scanning them. Lets take a look.
This is a cheap film stock, currently on sale, for 5 rolls for $20($4/roll) at Freestyle Photography Supply in Los Angeles. The price was right, so I’d thought I’d see what I could do. So far I’ve shot 3 rolls of the stuff. One at box speed, and the remaining two pushed to 400 and 1600. Perhaps next roll I might try pulling.
For a cheap film, it works pretty well. Especially if you are just scanning them. Lets take a look.
ISO 100 - Box Speed
I did a decent ride around LA County on my motorcycle. I stopped at a protest for people, hit the mountains, the PCH for ocean, and got urbanscapes and landscapes. Very reminiscent of TriX.
For the most part these are unedited, and they look like this direct scan. Pretty good. Little grainy, especially for a 100 speed film, and our darker friends, its a little sketch, but overall handsome looking film. Lets look at the unedited files for the few scans that needed some contrast correction
As you can see, not much of a difference.
ISO 400 - Push 2 stops
NOTE: Some of these had a yellow filter used.
As you can see, 400 is a little more punchy, but not by much. Not very grainy, and still perfectly good. Note that even in mixed light we still get detail in the shadows.
Lets look at a few of those unedited. The contrast correct is very slight.
ISO 1600 - Push 4 stops
This is where the fun starts. I did something really spooky for Halloween. I pushed cheap 100 speed film 4 stops to 1600. A dusk long beach photo-walk led by Open Gallery. Now this gets spooky. Punchy, Contrasty, Mysterious. There is no reason to do this, over lets say pushing TriX or HP5+ to 1600/3200, unless you really want to hit people over the head with film effects.
These are also heavily edited for contrast. far more so that more serious films like TriX or HP5
Lets take a look at the unedited photos. Total wash of grey. Usable with contrast correction, but this isn’t my first pick of film. Not bad for just fucking around with tho.
Conclusion
Film is very much worth the time, even if it comes with some limitations. Its not replacing Ilford or Kodak Black and Whites, but its certainly fun, and certainly has its uses, especially in broad daylight. Being slower than TriX, it gives grain and contrast in broad daylight that doesn’t leave you reaching for that 1/4000s shutter speed or an ND filter.