Night Film Photography: An Ode to Tungsten Film
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- Опубліковано 1 сер 2024
- Night photography is one of my favorite things to do. There's something about the neon signs, the car lights, the mood lighting that just gets me excited to take out my film camera to take photographs at night. And when most people go out to take pictures at night they grab the Cinestill 800T. While it is a great option coming from the amazing Kodak Vision3 500T, there used to be many options for tungsten based films. In this episode I share my experiences with four tungsten films that are great alternatives to Cinestill 800T for shooting at night:
1. Fujichrome T64
2. Fujicolor NPL 160T
3. Kodak Portra 100T
4 Kodak Ektachrome 64T
I share an overview and experience of each of these films and do a comparision of them each + Cinestill 800T.
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Video Chapters:
00:00 Best Film for Night Photography
00:49 Kodak Vision3 500T Footage
01:12 Overview of Tungsten Film
01:57 4 Tungsten Film Alternatives to Cinestill 800T
02:44 Why Shoot Tungsten Film over Daylight Film
03:13 Fujichrome T64
06:30 Fujicolor NPL 160T
08:03 Kodak Portra 100T
09:44 Kodak Ektachrome 64T
11:34 Cinestill 800T
13:32 Comparing 5 Tungsten Films Side by Side
19:25 Which Tungsten Film was your favorite?
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That Fujichrome 64T came out so nice, I actually really love the blue cast it has. It really allows the reds to pop against it! Great work!
Thanks yeah I agree the reds really pop with that film! It’s one of the most unique films I’ve shot. Thanks for watching the video.
the fujichrome is so gorgeous, wow
I know right?! It’s my favorite film I’ve shot to date. Immediately fell in love with its unique blue looks.
Beautiful images. I love photographing at night too and you have some of the most impressive night photography I’ve seen on YT. You really, really make me wish I had hoarded 64T…sigh
Thanks for your kind comment! I really do enjoy night photography and glad you enjoyed my photos and breakdown. I know...I found as much 64T as I could a couple years ago. It's harder to find now and less reliable in terms of how it was stored. I'm eventually going to make a video just on 64T and then share my Fuji digital film recipe I've made that I think is pretty close to the look. Thanks for watching!
I recently tried Ultramax 400 during night time and pushed it to 1600, the results were actually surprising to me since the pictures turned out quite good for such a cheap and available film
Ohhhh nice! Ultramax is probably my favorite consumer film but haven't tried it at night yet. You've piqued my interest. I have shot a few rolls of Ektar and Gold at night and both turned out good, I especially loved Ektar at night.
@@NathanTrimbach yea its a great film, and especially the colors turned out amazing. In the future I also want to try Gold!
Really dug the 160NPL! Need to track some down.
Yeah it has a look I really dig too. Hope you find some!
Great video! It’s so sad that these films aren’t produced anymore. I like shooting Portra 800 at night. It has sort of a greenish hue but I really like it!
Yeah for sure! Wish I shot more film when we had so many more options. But have to use the best with what we have! Nice I have a friend who swears by shooting Portra 800 at night. I haven’t tried it much yet but it’s on my list.
Was there a purple cast to the Fuji 64t. And I may missed the expiration date
I had a few photos of Fuji T64 Type II mixed in (less than 10%) and I have found that the Type II tended to have a little more purple cast over the original formula in certain lighting. All the boxes of Fuji T64 I purchased on eBay had expired in the mid 2000s. Usually between 2004 and 2007.
Fantastic video Nathan! Do you shoot your expired film using the 'one stop per decade' rule, and do you have to adjust the reciprocity time for expired film or calculate reciprocity as if the film were new?
Thanks for watching and commenting! Most of the film I found from this video expired in the mid 2000s and was cold stored (according to the eBay seller). I found for the slide film that I would either shoot box speed or only a 1/3 stop over. For a Color Negative it was more forgiving and I would sometimes do one stop over. Honestly, I think it has most to do with how it was stored which is basically a roll of the dice. I definitely struggled more with the Kodak films versus Fuji in general seem to last longer. There were quite a few rolls not shared in this video that just didn’t turn out. Best of luck in your search! Which film was your favorite?
Regarding reciprocity, all the films mentioned, except for Cinestill have fairly long exposure (1-2 minutes) before needing to adjust for reciprocity. Which is a big reason I loved shooting them. I have experimented a little bit with over, exposing cinestill by 2 to 3 stops, and it turned out great. Long exposure just feels like you can be pretty forgiving for color negative.
@@NathanTrimbach I like them all but I'm always a big fan of Fuji! The slide film has a sci-fi look to it and the negative film is more nostalgic. I'll have to see what I can get my hands-on. keep up the good work!
@@TitanPhotoUK You explained it perfectly. The slide has an otherworldly / sci-fi look and yeah the color negative looks nostalgic 70s. Thanks again for watching!
Great testing and nice photos! Just a note- the films are *balanced* for tungsten, not tungsten based. The tungsten is in the lights, which are yellowish.
Thanks for the correction. I think I mixed it a few times. Yeah I noticed the 5 different tungsten films were somewhere around 2500-2800k for Fuji T64 / E64T and around 3000-3400k for Portra 100T, Fuji NPL and Cinestill.
Love the video! I think my favorite long exposure/night film would have to be the old 6118 E64T. I’ve also gotten some great results from cross processing old duplicating films like Fuji CDU II (natively a super slow slide film but somehow doesn’t have any color shift in C-41.) I think it’s a bit hard to compare these results since the exposures are all pretty different, all the color negative films look a bit underexposed which may just be due to reciprocity failure. I’m curious why you don’t shoot Vision3 200T or 500T? There are tons of labs doing ECN-2 processing now and it’s by far the cheapest way to shoot tungsten film.
Thanks for your comment! I haven’t tried 6118 but I’ll have to look it up on IG or Flickr. Have you posted any? My personal favorite is the Fuji T64. I just love those blues. Yeah there was definitely some underexposure especially with the Portra 100T. I think some of the rolls were not as well kept. I have shot a few rolls of 200T and 500T on 35mm. I do want to shoot more of it now that there’s a local lab that processes E-CN2. My results with those have been mixed so far but open to trying more. Are there rolls of Vision3 in 120 you’ve tried?
@@NathanTrimbach I have some 6118 4x5 slides I’ve shot but never shared them anywhere. And sadly they don’t make vision3 in 120. You can get respooled 65mm stuff but I’m not really a fan of the sprocket holes. Best I’ve gotten is 35mm Vision3 in my P67ii so it’s X-Pan aspect ratio!
@@hellothisiskyle oh nice! I was just with some friends in Arizona who one of them shot some P67 with 35mm panos! Gonna share it in my video in about 2-3 weeks. I did a little looking on Flickr / IG for that 6118 and what I can tell it looks very similar to the Fuji and Ektachrome 64T with a lot of blues. But not a ton of examples available. I will say I shot a roll of Ektachrome Slide Duplicating film 5071 that turned out SUPER cool, like it came out of the movie TRON. Any other hard to find films you've shot you like?
@@NathanTrimbach Yeh duplicating film is interesting because it’s not made to be shot in a camera, it’s made to basically make copies of other film using a really bright tungsten light source. When I’m looking for obscure expired films I try to find the lowest speed films possible since they age the best. I’ve had really good luck with Konica impresa 50 and ektar 25, both had no color shifts just slightly faded in the shadows.
@@NathanTrimbach I was going to add 5071 to the comments. I was able to get a bunch years ago, which I xpro reversal with HC110/C41 chemistry. Not as blue as your T64/64T examples. If you like that look, you could also consider an 85 cooling filter when using daylight balanced films. Great idea for a video.
Provia 100f and E100 are best night films. Portra 160 for color night film
Thanks for your comment and watching the video. I’ve shot a few rolls of Provia and E100 at night with okay results but need to test more. Haven’t shot Portra 160. I have shot a few rolls Ektar 100 at night and loved it! I definitely need to test more films for night and this video wasn’t meant to be comprehensive of all films, but more of a love letter for tungsten based films I’ve shot. Thanks again!
Agree with you. Portra 160 is the best color night film. My personal preference is 120
I was actually expecting to prefer one of the films that are less commonly used at night, however aside from the halations, I really do prefer the consistant colour profile from the cinestill.
Yeah it does have a nice color palette for sure. I will do more videos on night photography for other films. I mainly focused on just the tungsten based films on this. I wish many of these films still are made! Glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for your comment!