Harmon Phoenix 200, First Roll

 I finally got around to shooting some Harmon Phoenix 200 this Summer, I shot around the neighbourhood with this roll in both sunny and overcast environments. I used my Nikon F90X with Nikon AF-D lenses: 20 F2.8, 50 F1.4 and the 70-210 F4-5.6 saw some action. 

First off, Phoenix 200, is not a 200 ISO film. Just because it says 200 ISO on the box, doesn't mean it's a true 200 ISO film, using my F90X and Matrix Metering, I exposed the film at 125 ISO and probably coul have done 100 with equally good results and Graination Photo Lab in Toronto's Chinatown processed normally. The negatives don't have the usual orange mask and at first glance they look almost black and white. I scanned the negatives with my Epson V600 with Vuescan interface software and drivers. You are going to get the best results doing your own scanning to get desired results you want. 

Secondly this is Harmon's first C-41 negative film, if you were expecting Portra 400, yeah, no, we're in Lomography territory for now, this is the first master roll for public consumption, once its done, Harmon will take all the teachable moments and feedback for Phoenix MkII. 

My expectations leaned toward more, the results will be more like Lomography's stuff and I was very pleased with the results. There's grain, but nowhere near as bad as the examples shot at box speed. Chatting with Hao at Graination, they did some testing in house and got really nice results at 50 ISO. My sage advice experiment like mad. 

If there's any advice I would give is shoot with a camera with a very accurate meter like a Nikon F90X, F100, F4, F5, F6 or a Canon Elan 7 and it's varients and the Canon EOS 1n. The camera also needs a DX code overide as you won't be shooting at box speed, ever. For the home scanners, you want to do all your fixing as much as possible during the scanning process, play with the sliders during the preview stage to get it right, doesn't matter if it's Vuescan or Silverfast and do any residual work in Lightroom. 


Yes, I would buy more Phoenix 200. 


Camera: Nikon F90X, Nikon AF-D Lenses. 

Film: Harmon Phoenix 200 rated at 125 ISO and processed by Graination Labs. 



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