This is one of the great summer films for when the weather is...er...summery! Colour rendering is faithful and the film has a great latitude. Grain is minimal and, overall, the film is very forgiving. Billed as 'Professional' this also suits everyday shooters, especially if you want to capture that summer vibe. One of the best Kodaks I've shot.
Fast service and great photos! Highly recommended. Thank you very much
It's so reliably good, even shot at 200iso as seen below
I found that the film was good if there's a ton of light, but I don't think it captures a ton of shadow detail. I like the blue/purple hue as a creative choice but there were blue spots in all my photos as seen below.
An absolute classic. Incredible dynamic range, extremely reliable, beautiful tonality. If I could only shoot with one B&W going forward, this would be it.
This is a film that is ideal for summer holidays, as it is at its absolute best in the sunshine. It's not ideal for overcast days, however.
This is my favourite 800 speed film. Colours are nicer than Cinestill. Best used for portraits and low light situations. Used it recently at an Only Fools and Horses convention which is an indoor event. No flash, just shooting at f2.8 and photos looked great. Best to give it a bit of over exposure if you can. You can trust this film to give you good results.
I bought two rolls of E100 because my favourite Fuji slide film wasn't available. I shot it on a sailing barge under a clear blue sky and had it developed and scanned by Analogue Wonderland. Sadly, the results are far too blue, they are unusable - a waste of £80 and no great photos from a one-off trip. I can tweak the scans in Lightroom but they are not good, and the slides are no use for projection at all. I'm sure there are situations in which this film works, but not at see on a blue-sky day!
Excellent film. Contrast is nice and punchy. The grain is finer than most other black and white films I’ve shot at 400 speed. For this reason, I prefer it to Tri-x. Good film for most situations. Great tones. Has a vintage look.
Really pleased with the colours from this stock! I've used the 35mm Gold for a little while, but I think it really excels in this format. Will be my go-to for the foreseeable!
I need to remember to us a tripod, handheld with my Ikonta 520/2 no longer works for me
Boy, this film is my guilty pleasure. I would always much rather a film stock that has character than a totally clean image. Why would we be shooting on film otherwise? Phoenix II is a tricky beast but easier to control than version one. It has much more latitude than the original and detail can be recovered from the shadows better than Opticolour 200. The grain is noticeable but I find it give your images a painterly quality. The highlights suffer from a magenta cast which can be tricky to remove but not impossible.
The star here is the halation. While, not everyone's cup of tea, it is really nice and soft. As an alternative to Cinestill, give this a go and you won't be disappointed if this effect is what you are looking for. I hope that this is an element of this stock that continues into the future iterations of the Phoenix because it's nice to have film stocks that are unashamedly film!
So Optik now own InovisCoat and FilmoTec which both were producing new colour film in Europe so OptiColour 200 could be the first step in things to come. This film was developed by FilmoTec as part of the Wolfen line and like that range of films, this is a weird one.
I would like to like it but the colours are difficult to balance and somewhat random. In my experience there tends to be a muddy green cast to the whole frame. The latitude is limited and should you dare to bring up the shadows they can appear quite red. These attributes remind me of Lomo Metropolis (made by InovisCoat) so I guess there is similar DNA between these two stocks as there appears to be for the other Wolfen films.
The grain is noticeable and detail isn't rendered very fine. I always like character in these new experimental colour films and there is one here, I just don't know if it's for me. The vibe and halation of Phoenix II and superior colour rendering of Luckycolor 200 would be my choice over OptiColour 200 any day.
I last used this 90+ year old camera, Ikonta 520/2 with Frontar f=12 1:9 lens, in 1964. Will keep trying.
As above, but asked for large scans and got small ones back.
First time it's happened after years of relying on AW, so hope no-one ends up going home in tears about it.
Loved this when I got the scans back. Loaded it up with XP2, gave it a bash and results were different to say the least...
Love shooting this stuff, it is basically perfect in all conditions and colours look vibrant and realistic. Sometimes colours can come out not as expected but in my experience that isn't always a bad thing! Lovely film for all seasons and subjects.
I love hp5 plus in 35mm too, but the 120 is so beautiful.
I haven’t used film for more than twenty years, and my results appear to reflect that: strange film + strange camera = not wonderful results! With practice I would get nice results, I’m sure. Some shots look surprisingly grainy for a 200ASA film. But there’s a kind of mellowness to the images which appeals. I don’t have any results on my phone, so can’t add them to this post. I’ll try to send some later.
Got a bulk load of this a few years back and am still working my way through. Tri-X gives good contrast and strong grain profile. You can push it quite hard if you don’t mind the contrast and I love it for street and similar photos. What surprised me however is that it did a relatively good job of some landscapes with an orange filter. These were all shot on a 1955 Mamiya 6 so I feel it fits the camera well.
Got this in a mixed bundle and thought I’d try it with a red filter. Despite calculating using a meter, I found the shots a bit over exposed and the effect a bit less than hoped for - there was more of a softness and more noise than expected. Shots taken without the filter worked well but not really better than HP5 or even Kentmere 400, which I use as a cheap all purpose. Overall it was a fun experiment but not sure I’d repeat on this stock.
Kodak Gold has been my staple colour film since the 1990s and its still great. You get wonderful vibrant colours on a summer day and a little lattitide if needed also. Sure, its not Portra, but its less than half the price and perfect for family stuff.
I absolutely love this sticker! As soon as I saw it was new on the AnalogueWonderland’s website, I knew immediately I had to get one. I put it on my mini fridge where I keep my film!!!
I’ve shot half a dozen rolls of 50d and it is fast becoming my favourite colour negative film. Hardly any grain, massive latitude (more contrast can be added in post process) and good sharpness add up to a pretty compelling package. For artistic daytime effects you can shoot it at ISO 25 on a tripod with an ND filter.
Grabbed a roll to take on a wander around in the London heatwave, was really surprised at how much of a heavy orange tone came through in all of the photos.
Got some pretty fun results, but not may favourite film stock overall.
