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

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Take the Ramp

A panoramic format photograph of an on-ramp beneath a highway overpass, the evening sun casting the long shadows of large support beams over the roadway

FPP Retrochrome // Mamiya 7ii w/ Panoramic Adapter // Mamiya N 65mm f/4 L

I'm still managing to get about one shot I'm happy with off each roll of Retrochrome (which, in this format with the Mamiya pano kit is 1 out of 10, so pretty good all things considered). I've learned thus far that the best way to make it shine given my workflow is to take pretty monochromatic shots and then pray that I can white balance it properly in lightroom. Blue and green tones seem to work best for this given everything I've shot on this stock, which was a surprise to me initially since the FPP product shots for the stock are actually all pretty warm. I tried to balance this same shot with a warmer tone in mind, but even after tweaking it and tweaking it and then walking away for a few hours, the best I was able to get was just like, <someplace>, Mexico-tier results, which is not what I'm going for.

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A photograph of a wooden public bench with the words 'many people' written in all caps in a light red paint on one of the planks

FPP Retrochrome // Contax G2 // Zeiss Sonnar 90mm f/2.8

Been on a slide film kick recently. A few weeks ago when FPP restocked their store with Retrochrome (a re-spooled expired high-speed variant of Kodak's Ekatchrome produced for the government for "industrial and government applications"1). I snagged a few rolls to try out, having heard exceptionally mixed reviews.

I think that it produces some very good results in the right scenes and lighting, but it's brutally unforgiving, even in comparison to other lower-latitude slide films. I've shot two rolls of 24 exposures and at this point have ended up with approximately three (3) shots I like. It's definitely not a stock I'd recommend to most people unless you really dig the desaturated vibe, and in any case they've already sold out - turns out the people that like this stock really like it2.

  1. i.e. surveillance - probably

  2. That, or a good portion of it was bought out by other shops/resellers that I see selling it for $1-2 more per roll elsewhere online. Bastards.