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Quick! Shoot all the color film while the chemicals are still fresh!

I'd been sitting on two rolls of cine film, one roll of Kodak Vision3 500T, and one roll of Fuji Eterna 250D. I've been wanting to do some low light stuff recently, and these higher speed films gave me the perfect excuse to do it. I know 250 isn't "high speed", but considering the last time I went to take night shots I was effectively using 50 iso film, 250 felt like an absolute luxury.

Of course, these were shot with the Mamiya 645, because I'll take any excuse to use that camera I can get. The 80mm f/1.9 too. These shots were almost all shot at f/8 though. Some of these I really like, some are just meh. Some are downright gross.

One thing that I wish I had done differently was factor EV comp into my exposure. These were all reflective metered at box, and I normally shoot color negative film a stop over, so I thought I'd just go with box speed and that would add in my stop of overexposure. I really should have shot one stop under to make up for the fact that an average of middle grey is not appropriate for these scenes.

This was also my first time developing film with remjet. These two rolls were the 8th and 9th roll I'm getting out of this half of a kit, and I didn't mind contaminating the chemicals with a little residual remjet. I used a solution of baking soda and washing soda to wash it off first, but there was still a bit left on the reels at the end for me to rub off. No biggie though.

So over all, do I love these shots? No not really. Did I have a ton of fun? Also not really. It was pretty grueling to trudge around with the heaviest camera I own on the heaviest tripod I own. But I'm glad I did it, and I feel like it was a good experience, however "good" is quantified.