EDUCATION: Chris graduated Magna Cum Laude from Adelphi University with a degree in Communications in Journalism in 2009. Since then, he's learned and adapted to various things in the fields of social media, SEO, app development, e-commerce development, HTML, etc. PAST BYLINES: Gear Patrol, PC Mag, Geek.com, Digital Photo Pro, Resource Magazine, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, IGN, PDN, and others. As you can see in the images above, when Lomography Color Negative 800 works (which is most of the time), it works really well. I particularly like doing night photography with it, and the two images above from New York City are just a couple of nearly two rolls I shot that evening; all showed really nice results. It’s more evident in certain shots than others (variations in light and exposure), but the color rendering is just sort of classic looking and very pleasing to me.

If you have a notepad ready for your off the cuff guesses, lets scroll down to begin… Film 1: Daytime gallery In this example if I use an f4 lens and Lomo 800 film this gives the same exposure as using a 100 speed film with an f1.4 lens. A f1.4 lens is 3 stops faster than f4 and ISO 100 is 3 stops slower than ISO 800. I tend to shoot Portra 160 @100 which slightly over exposes the film but roughly speaking photos with the mentioned lenses and films will give comparable image. As such this is why I share the following 35mm Portra 160 film scans. It helps to give a reference point when comparing the colours and tones from each film. 35mm Kodak Portra 160 sample photos- Romania At the end of November, a museum around the corner installed three life-sized dinosaurs on their property. These models promote the museum’s new exhibition – dinosaurs and their representation in movies and TV. But that’s a pretty bold claim. I don’t believe Kodak has ever allowed their professional lineup to be rebranded. However, Kodak Portra 800 is an entirely different film from Portra 400 and 160, which were reformulated to produce better digital scans in 2010.But the important thing is that everything else is the same. You can capture an equally good image using Portra 800 or Lomo 800. Final thoughts

If you have tried this film yourself, let me know in the comments below what you think of it. If you haven’t tried it yet, I hope this review has helped you anyway. With the knowledge that I could get the sort of low-grain, high-sharpness results out of Portra 800 with a good quality lens, I soon decided to pair it with the frankly awesome Zeiss 35mm f/1.4 ZM and some landscape shooting in Wales. I included a bunch of these results in my review of the lens here, but I didn’t go into much depth about just how impressed I’d been with Portra 800. Even knowing what I knew, it felt slightly unnatural using this film for sunny-day landscapes type shots. The results proved conclusively to me that those sorts of feelings were ill-founded. For the rest of the Lomo 800 120 images I shot scenes as I walked around the city of Cluj. It was raining and almost dark when I took some of the photos yet it looks like daylight in the pictures. I was shooting at ISO 800 but my Sekonic lightmeter died so I was guessing the exposure at one stage. I shot the Fuji GS645 Fujinon lens wide open and f3.5 at 1/30 for some photos to try to get enough light into the cameras. Scanning film – photo of monitor showing preview (*Not true representation) Film scans and thoughts – Romania Since Colorplus 200 is the latest version of VR 200, and evidence points to Lomography 100 and 400 being its respective Kodacolor VR counterparts... Maybe we’ve become comfortable with our Fuji Velvia, Sensia and Provia, or our Kodak Ektachrome and Elitechrome. They give us reliability, precision and consistency, they’re tried and tested. Wait a second! That’s the last thing we want a film to give us. (Emphasis mine.) From https://www.lomography.com/magazine/45628-rollei-crossbird-reincarnation

One year later

Photos taken by Matthieu Quatravaux with the Lomography Color Negative 800 ISO 120, pushed 1 stop. Model: @baekoming_jen.

The choice of medium format mainly came from the photographers who inspire me in portrait photography. Like I mentioned before, Rosie Matheson's photos pushed me to try this format. And I love the 6/7 aspect which is more harmonious than the standard 24/36. After some time with the Mamiya, from which I love the amazing quality of its lenses, the sharpness, and the render of colors, I started to get tired of carrying 3 to 4 kg of photo material and I started to realize that my compositions looked good in square format. So I looked for options and I was at first interested in a Bronica S2A, then I tried a Hasselblad in a shop, and I was sure, I needed a Hasselblad! Now, I mostly use my Hasselblad 503CX with an 80 mm or 50 mm lens. It's a real pleasure because it's compact and light. It also offers two more images for each 120 roll. Presently my choice is to keep on working in medium format because I'm used to it and because I love the level of details and depth you get in this format. Scanning film – photo of monitor showing preview (*Not true representation) Film scans – Lomo 800 120 with the Fuji GF670 Lomography is an important player in the world of analogue photography because the brand continues to bring new tools on the market to keep this practice alive."As such, I then decided to shoot a roll with a very modern, high contrast, high resolution lens. In fact, it was this next roll – the one I mentioned at the beginning of the post with the Konica Hexar and Voigtlander 50mm f/1.2 – that really sealed the deal for this film for me.

In some cases, I specifically held a look out for intense colors. In other cases, I wondered how Lomography 800 would render rather subtle tones. Could the film enhance colors, depict them more vibrantly? Well, I think it can. In the image with the different colored leaves, it is already too punchy for my taste. As a result, I will handle this film with care. A couple of rolls later I decided I should give Portra 800 a run for its money in lower light. As an 800 speed film, it seemed only right… again loaded into the Konica Hexar with the 50mm f/1.2 mounted, I took a roll out on a night out. Unfortunately, I did get a little merry, so can’t remember exactly the exposure index at which I shot these, though they were at least 1 if not 2 stops underexposed, and more significantly I didn’t push process the film.These are straight out of the Negative Lab Pro scanning software (version 2.3) without any adjustments to the images other than slight cropping. I followed the advice of Nate from Negative Lab Pro and kept the histogram to the right for the best quality scans.