You might remember from my previous post that last weekend I visited the steam railway that’s at the end of our street. I took along my sold Lubitel to shoot a farewell roll or two but also packed my Nikon F2 (thebestlookingcameraevermade™) and a roll of Fujicolo(u)r C200.
My friend Wojtek had told me about this film and that in his opinion, it was the best cheap film around. I saw his results and immediately bought 9 rolls at less than £2 each.
I had the film processed and scanned at AG Photolab who, as usual, gave a remarkably quick turn-around. For the first time I asked them to scan too and despite selecting too small a file size, I’m happy with the results.
Another pleasing thing is that I seem to have fixed the camera’s meter. Previously, the meter had flicked around or simply not shown any signs of life, but a poke around at the battery compartment and cleaning of all the contacts I could get at without too much disassembly seems to have done the trick.
During the day I also had breakfast with Emily, helped out at the Leicester Lo-Fi smartphone darkroom and met my parents in the pub and used up the roll in the day. All of the pictures were all shot with either the Nikkor 28 or 85mm f2 AI-S, both beautiful lenses.
I think you’ll be seeing this camera/film combo again through the year. The smooth highlights in that first picture of Emily, the greenish shadows in the last and just the right amount of grain are all features of a film that you might pay 5-6 times the price for.
My 52 rolls so far:
Great results with the C200!!
The picture with the beer/wine is Friday evening defined the right way!
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Actually I’m writing a story for a magazine about my experiences with cheap colour film. I like the fact that you can buy ten or twenty rolls at once without bothering too much about the expenses as some of us would with Portra, 400H or Velvia. Nice results!
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Let us know when that article is done, I’d be very interested in reading it!
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Will do, but it’s a quarterly Magazine in German and they don’t give away their articles on the web – but I’ll keep you informed when the next issue is out (March 8th).
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If you’re writing something in it, I’m sure I can afford to buy a copy 🙂
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A steam railway at the end of the street! I’m jealous! Great results for the C200… I think many of my rolls take with drugstore film were actually C200 (it seems to be what Fuji uses to rebrand), and those turned out fine for such cheap stuff as well. May have to look into getting the actual official stuff, to see if they match!
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Tell those Fuji greens 😊 love the old station shots…the F2 is beautiful indeed 👍
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The final portrait is stunning. Beautiful little girl.
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