![]() ![]() Not to mention, these were hardly “small” houses. The fact that people were allowed to do this, possibly near 40 years after most of the places I had lived before had already had associations that wouldn’t allow this, was both stunning and an example of pretty “backwards” and non-cultural thinking. I saw it happen with an acquaintance of mine who had to go into assisted living, and then her son sold the house, built in the late 1800’s, and it was torn down and something terrible built there. Jim, when I lived in Z-ville, I was amazed that people were allowed to tear down vintage housing in the village and put up Mc-Mansion infills. Get more of my photography in your inbox or reader! Click here to subscribe. Thanks again to Film Camera Store for sending me this film to try. Crazy.īut given Fujifilm’s waning commitment to roll film, and Kodak’s ongoing troubles in its consumer film division, anyone who is devoted to color-negative film is probably glad that companies like Flic Film are offering alternatives - especially when they’re as lovely as Elektra 100. That’s a little eye watering, but we live in a time when workaday Fujicolor 200 sells for as much as $11 in single-roll packs, and a five-pack of Portra 160 approaches $80. Looking around, I see that a roll of Elektra 100 sells for $14-15 in most places. That happened to me on this roll, and marred the first photo. It is prone to a little light leakage into the cartridge. One slight gotcha with Elektra 100 - when you load this film, do it in dim light. The sun was shining brightly directly on this building in Muncie, and Elektra 100 handled it like a champ. Everything looks great on the left, but the shadowy right looks a little underexposed. This defunct jewelry store in downtown Muncie shows how Elektra 100 handles mixed lighting. This church sign is on the main drag in Muncie, Indiana. It also renders blue skies with a distinctive richness, and also finds good color in earth tones. See that image here and compare the reds. I photographed this Odd Fellows building in Yorktown, Indiana, with my Nikon Df DSLR as well. I made this photo on a walk along Zionsville’s Main Street.Įlectra 100 renders strong reds. This 50mm Zuiko macro lens is great for walking-around photography – leave it at infinity focus and you can use the OM-10 like a point-and-shoot. I freshened them up a bit with the Radiant Photo plugin I bought for Photoshop. On this cloudy day, colors were somewhat muted. I found that Elektra 100 prefers full sun to a gray day. It manages to be warm without running to brown. It shows how Elektra 100 offers rich, full tones. It also makes the most out of any color film behind it. ![]() This 50mm Zuiko macro lens is made for getting in close like this. I shot the Elektra at box speed, ISO 100, which is slight overexposure given Aerocolor IV’s ISO 125 rating. This included my front yard in early spring. I mounted my 50mm f/3.5 Zuiko Auto-Macro lens to it and took it out for several danders around Indiana. You can buy Flic Film films at most of the usual places.įilm Camera Store also sent me a very nice Olympus OM-10 35mm SLR, which I reviewed here. See everything they offer at their Web site here. They call it Elektra 100.įlic Film also offers several repackaged cinema films, as well as traditional black-and-white films. Based in Longview, Alberta, Canada, they repackage and sell a number of films, including Aerocolor IV. Several small companies sell Aerocolor IV in 35mm cartridges for film photographers. One oddity: the film base is clear, rather than orange like most normal C-41 films. ![]() There may also be “remjet” on the film that must be removed first.) Image courtesy Flic Film You can develop it in C-41, but it will change the look and might not look natural. Any lab can develop it! (A lot of repackaged color films are cinema films made for ECN-2 development. It has some strong advantages for use in film cameras: natural color rendition, wide exposure latitude, great sharpness and resolving power, low grain thanks to T-grain technology, and common C-41 development. Kodak Aerocolor IV is an ISO 125 color-negative film designed for making aerial images - up in the air, pointing down at the land below. They load these films into 35mm cartridges or onto 120 spools, box them up, and sell them. Most of them turn to films normally available only in large bulk rolls for specialty applications such as cinema and surveillance. None of them are manufacturing new films, as they lack the enormous capital required to hire the scientists to formulate the film, and then to build or rent the manufacturing facilities to produce it. But in this time of color-film scarcity, a number of small and boutique companies are issuing color films. It might be coincidence, or it might be entrepreneurs recognizing an opportunity. ![]()
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