a few months ago a new colour film was released, Harman Phoenix 200, so I picked up a roll to try it out. they say that
With a DX coded cassette and a box speed of ISO 200, Phoenix can be rated between ISO 100 and 400 but performs best in good, consistent light.
and I can only select between ISO 100 and 400 on my camera, so I figured I'd go with ISO 100, since I've been burned by underexposure in the past, and I also typically shoot Kodak Gold 200/Fujifilm 200 at ISO 100. but all of my photos came back washed out and overexposed :(
the ones I've picked here are one of the few that at least have some parts that are exposed decently, but it's still so overexposed in the lighter areas. in the first one all of the detail has been blown out of the walls facing the sun to the right, in the second one it's the part of the building in the upper left, and in the third I don't even know what's going on with the tree and the sky behind it
I think this is what people mean when they say a film doesn't have a lot of latitude? or dynamic range? because I think if I had shot at ISO 400 then all of my photos would've been underexposed except in the brightest areas like those above. I'm going to try to edit these some, and if that doesn't work I might try to rescan them myself at the library, but tbh I don't think these are gonna be salvageable
honestly I'm mostly annoyed that a film this expensive gave results like this >:[ my fault for thinking I could treat new experimental film like anything I've casually used before ig