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Phoenix just got bigger!

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The techies over at Harman have been busy the past few years. Those clever lab jacket guys have not only built a brand new 35mm colour film from scratch, which must have been a heck of a job!, they have now released the same film in 120 Format! I can only guess that Phoenix 200 had a successful year and it’s great news for those that mainly shoot Medium Format! I for one am excited about the release. Not because I am a colour film nerd, I’m not!  I love Black and White too much – but now and then I shoot a bit of Phoenix and I don’t necessarily want to shoot 36 frames of the stuff! So this is perfect for me to whack out 8 frames on my 6×9 Camera. My only shortfall is that I don’t print colour. Never had! Even though I can. I have an Intrepid Enlarger. I should. 

But for now if I like a photograph that I have taken in colour I ask my friend Steve, who owns a gallery and a very nice printer, to print one for me. Simple. And I always have the negatives for the future. 

I recently put out a vlog shooting the new 120 format where I was lucky enough to have some rolls sent to me from Harman and I couldn’t wait to see what the negatives looked like on a 6×9 surface. I shot one roll, 6×9, but realised not everyone shoots 6×9! So for the vlog I used my Pentacon Six 6×6 medium format lump. 

I shot four rolls in all and developed them all in Cinestills C41 Kit. Which is dead easy to do! I have a video on that process if you want to see it.  It was my first attempt at developing colour film. 

Here are some of the photographs that I took and I must admit, I thought they looked really clean as my experience with the 35mm version of

the film I have had a mixed bag of results with grain and contrast… possibly due to development! Who knows. But these came out nice. 

6×9 Images

6X6 Images

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