Colour film photography is something I haven’t done for twenty years or so, between then and now I have shot nothing but black & white film (other than digital of course).
I bought on spec a Canon EOS 30 which the owner didn’t know if it still worked or not (it did/does work by the way). The lens I used was the Tamron 28-300mm f/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD.
I planned to shoot 1 roll of KODAK Portra 160 & 2 rolls of Portra 400, unbeknown to me the camera came with an expired roll of FUJICOLOUR C200 already in it, so I ended up shooting 4 rolls of film. Before this I hadn’t shot any of these film stocks before, so I was very interested to see the results (see the gallery below).
The end results have made me decide that I like the more subtle tones of Portra so going forward Portra 160/400/800 will be my choice when it comes to colour film photography. This means I now have two film stocks that I will use for the majority of my film photography going forward, ILFORD DELTA 400 is my black & white option. This is going to help me be more consistent in the work I produce in the future.
