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Day 28: January 38, 2014: Upper Market

More experimentation today! This time with a new camera from Craigslist and a new film that I heard about on the internets and acquired from Glass Key Photo down in the Lower Haight.

That film is Cinestill 800T: The result of much experimentation by a couple of clever Southern California based photographers, the Brothers Wright. Basically, it’s a modified version of Kodak’s 500T Tungsten white balanced cinema film, adapted for use in 35mm still cameras and standard C41 color negative still film development.

This film caught my attention right away, since this film project has found me missing the ability to shoot in low light on the streets. I’ve been searching for a decent high speed film to play with, and my preferences tend toward cooler color schemes, so this seemed like a natural fit.

I also recently acquired a Canon EOS 3, one of their last film cameras, from someone near San Jose on Craigslist.  It’s big and shiny and actually seems to have more features than my new digital camera.  I assume it was originally pretty expensive, but lucky for me, film cameras are dirt cheap these days. 🙂

For a few quick test shots, I’m pretty happy with both so far, and curious what else they can do. More tests to come!

(Cinestill 800T in the new Canon EOS 3)