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I’m Zach. I do film photography and darkroom prints.

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Bright pink Bougainvillea flowers in late evening sun

Fujicolor Press 400 @ 200 (exp. 2001) // Contax G2 // Zeiss Biogon 28mm f/2.8

Took a chance on some expired film on eBay while it's still somewhat economical (eBay film camera sellers do not interact), and have been relatively happy with the results. Bought a couple 20-roll press boxes of expired (early 2000s) Fuji color negative film from listings that were thin on storage details, but for being 2 decades past their process by date, everything that I shot seemed to really only want one extra stop of light. I don't know if this is another nail in the coffin of the "one stop for every decade expired" rule, or if the film was just stored refrigerated.

I've never been the biggest fuji color profile fan, but with the One Weird Trick that photographers hate of "just slap a 1/4 pro mist filter on that bad boy", and some cooling down of the highlights in post, I'm hoping that I'll be able to stay away from having to shell out for Portra (if I can even find any in stock anywhere) in the near term.

On a more technical rant, the autobracketing controls on the G2 fucking rock for running test rolls. Setting the exposure compensation to +1 stop and a +/- 1 stop bracketing, plus the custom setting to change the bracketed exposure order plus the bracketing-specific behavior for the continuous shooting modes made actually testing out these rolls a breeze. You get +2, +1, and +0 stop exposures in that order and all you have to do is hold the button down - the camera is smart enough to stop shooting in continuous mode after the +0 exposure. The G2 is absolutely not for everyone, and honestly is a huge pain in the ass if you've got a really specific picture you're trying to take in your mind and you just can't convince all the automation in the camera to work with you, but no other camera I know of makes this sort of testing this easy in such a dexterous form factor (looking at you Nikon F5).