Lomography Lady Grey 400 - on test! Ft. Bronica S2A, Bronica ETRS and Rolleiflex SLX
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- Опубліковано 5 вер 2024
- Well I was pretty surprised at this film... wasn't expecting that!
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I'm pretty sure I've used Lady Grey before, but it must have been quite a few years ago, I have no real memory of it. The the lovely peeps at Lomography got in touch and said they wanted to send me some films to try out. Now, I'm hardly going to say no am I?
I tried not to do too much investigating before I did this shoot, I wanted to go in pretty blind, just shoot the film and see what came out. So that's what I did, got hold of my friend Rob, who has a cracking look and doesn't mind being photographed, and we headed out into the Forest of Dean for a morning.
I was expecting a bit of a "lomo" look, a bit new age film photography, high contrast, heavy grain etc. But this film is none of those things!
Grain is really pretty amazing for a 400ASA film, it's just about the right level to give the images some texture, but not so much that you're overwhelmed by it, or it starts messing with the details.
Obviously this is 120 film, so proportionally the grain is going to be more subtle than on 35mm.
Overall though, I really enjoyed shooting this film, and I'm really happy with the results.
Before any of you start going off about how you can't compare a 400ISO film to a 125ISO film... I know! I'm not. Well, I am, but not expecting comparable results as far as grain is concerned. I want to see what the final images are like, that's all.
And in my defense I actually think it's an interesting comparison, more by luck than design... but the Lady Grey holds up pretty well against a 125 film, and that kinda says it all.
What did you think? Did you like the pics??
Very nice comparison & video. Always look forward to your next one.
Thank so much! Glad you enjoyed it. Lomo Berlin hitting the channel very soon now!
First of your videos I've watched, and I really enjoyed it. Great to see you working and loved the analysis.
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching.
this is such a great video Nick thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Those portraits are on point! The best I have seen on your channel yet.
Thank you! I had a good day... I'll be back to my usual half cocked screw ups next video, I promise
Got myself a S2A and putting it's first roll through currently. The 6x6 need to grow on me but it's a camera who deserves more love, agree!
Congratulations on your S2A!! You’re going to love that camera so much! I’m excited for you.
The 6x6 is weird…. I go in and out of love with it. No advice to offer other than the obvious - look for more vertical content in your compositions! Portraits on 6x6 work great.
@@the120ist Thanks, great content here btw, keep up the good work!
seen that film but never tired it might give it a go do like the look of it.
I really liked this one, genuinely impressed with it. And it stands up really well alongside Kodak Tri-X 400. I thought it held its own even next to the FP4. Nice film, definitely worth a try!
Lomo lady grey is foma. The color of the prewash is the kicker. What they do is repackage the foma and rate it at a different iso so that it looks a bit different than the foma of the same speed. So Lady Grey is probably 200 foma. I did an experiment where I shot Lady Grey at 200 and a roll of foma 200. They came out exactly the same.
There's definitely a lot of evidence to suggest that, but no one really knows exactly what's what. All I can say is that I don't think I get the same look to my negatives with Foma 400. But I don't know the answer!
I enjoy your film tests and reviews, Nick! You really enjoyed using your (noisy) Bronica cameras! 😉 The portraits are amazing. Your model was patient and looked like either Sir Lancelot or Butch Cassidy from the old American West! Lovely grey shades from this film. I may give it a try 🎉👍🏻 Thanks for the video!
Thanks Anthony! I do love my noisy Bronicas! Yeah Rob's great isn't he? A great look for black and white, thats' for sure!
Cracking episode Nick, I'm no pixel peeper or grain gazer but they looked good to me. Cracking photos love the close ups all round awesome team effort cheers fellas. Have a great '24
Thanks Paul mate! Same to you, best wishes for 24, hope it brings you lots of lovely photo opportunities!
Nice Video, with a model like this all films look good😂. I was also impressed when you showed the closeups for the grain, I expected it to be more prominent. But I also agree that it is quite subtle on 120 film.The blacks in front of the dark shed looked really nice. I really liked your S2A in action. The camera just looks so cool! I got the focus on mine now tech sharp with a modified film back where I replaced the film holder with a transparent sheet of paper. It worked nicely. I got that idea from your 4x5 large format camera. I hope lomography will bring out the Fantôme 8 film in 120, that would be fun. Thx for sharing the video
I know right? He's a good man to photograph, he's just head to toe texture! The grain on that film is pretty amazing for a 400ISO. Better in 120 of course, as you say. I realised when shooting this one how much I've missed my S2A, you can expect to see more from that one in future vids!
Interesting, tell me more about the transparent paper, what did you do exactly?
@@the120ist I bought a spare film back for the S2A (old one, was sold as spare parts), removed the back cover and took out the film holder. Then cut a piece of parchment paper to 6x6 (in lack of a spare ground glass) and glued it to the opening on the camera side. The paper was now exactly where the film would be in a real film back. With the shutter set to bulb, you can check the image on the parchment. You need a bright motif to check for sharpness, it is a lot darker than the normal Fresnel/ground glass combo. But in general it works like a second viewfinder. I was able to adjust the real viewfinder without wasting rolls of film. In the end the problem on my bronica was the foam under the mirror. That is now fixed and my favorite medium format camera works also at f 2.8 :-)
...glued it from the inside of the film back towards the opening on the camera side....
I thought Lady Gray is just reboxed Foma - is that not the case?
I hotly debated topic... no one really knows. Some swear it is, others say could be. Who knows!