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Back to Elora again with Friends.

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  Elora was a fun day trip for my friends, and I don't need much of an excuse to head up.  Camera: Olympus OM-1md, Zuiko lenses.  Film: Eastman Double X, Ilfotec HC 1+31. 

Elora Ontario and my First Thoughts on Cinestill 400D.

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 This past spring has been a big surprise with new colour film introductions. Adox came out with Color Mission 200, a limited run film whose profits will earmarked for future C-41 research and development, Japan Camera Hunter announced and reverse engineered homage to Fujifilm Provia 400, but the biggest deal is Cinestill's 400D.  Cinestill says this is a new film with high dynamic range while you can shoot at 400 ISO, you can rate it from 200 to 800 without messing around with development and you can push it to 3200. As per the Cinestill website 400D is designed to be processed in C-41 chemistry but the colour palette shows its routes from Vision 250D motion picture stock. Coming at around the same price as Kodak's Portra 400 Cinestill 400D provides an option that used to be filled by Fujifilm 400H for a premium colour negative film.  Now, from my experience 400D is a warm film. Not that's a bad thing. I love how skin tones render. I exposed at 250 ISO and processed stan...