Bill Smith's Photography

I remember early in July Neil at Graination hinted at some new films hitting the lab shelves but was quite evasive. The cat fell out of the bag the same weekend as the 10th Anniversary Classic Camera Revival Photo Walk, my friend John Roberts was staying with me and he found out on Reddit that Harmon was going to be releasing Phoneix 200 Mk2 or 2.0 (use what works for you). The box colour changed from red to blue. Well there was a press embargo so someone within the Canadian photo retail community spilled the beans, as a fromer public relations and marketing communications consultant, I always thought media embargos prior to launch date for a product or service was hard, if not impossible to police.  All that said, Phoenix 200 Mk2, what's still the same? Well you still need to overexpose intentially down to 100-125 ISO,  calling it 200 is just marketing, whey? Ask Harmon. That's about it, new packaging, new and much more stable dye couplers, super easy to scan. Harmon nailed i...

Harmon Technologies dropped Harmon Phoenix 200 a few years ago, and it was a new C-41 on the market, not something rebadged, or an emulsion brought back from the dead. This was a brand new colour film. Ok, I've shot this in 35mm and 120, Kodak Portra 400 it's not. Heck not even Kodak Ultramax or Fuji Superia 400. Phoenix 200 is grainy leands really warm and has latitude shallower than slide film, and there's halation. I see this for what it is, Harmon Phoenix 200 is an experimental film that will be evolving.  Now if you notice in the title, Mk1, yup Harmon Phoenix in the red box package is being discontinued, because, a Phoenix 200 Mk2 has been introduced last month, and it's light years better. I shot a roll and you will be seeing the results in the next post. I used the same camera and lens, heck even the lens has the same brand UV filter to remove any variables. Stay tuned.  Camera: Nikon FE, Nikkor Ai 50 F2 lens.  Film: Harmon Phoenix 200 @100 ISO.  ...