These days, it sometimes seems like film emulsions are disappearing. But CineStill 400D is something that we haven't really seen before. Lots of brands taking Cinema film and spooling for 35mm don't remove the remjet layer.
However, CineStill does. Photographers over the years have had a mix of good and bad things to say about the brand's emulsions. So does CineStill 400D hold up to the legend that everything else they've made has?. thephoblographer.com
Film photography has steadily become more expensive over the years. And in the past few years, the prices have pretty much exploded. With more photographers shooting film, the demand has surely grown with only a few brands making film.
The story of Lamborghini and Atlanta Film Company (AFC) have some very similar parallels. Lamborghini was started out of anger, and considering how AFC's Bill Manning has been speaking on the Studio-C41 podcast for a while, I can see why he'd started it.
You'd be shocked at just how simple it is to get the redscale look that everyone loves and craves. The redscale look derives from the organic look that you can get from film. And so, I'm going to preface this piece by saying you should just go shoot film.
Some of you may think I'm nuts to say that film photography is back. But it really, truly is. In the pandemic, more people decided to take it up and start their own darkrooms. It's fun and a completely different way of creating images that everyone should do and commit to--at least for a month! However, I only see the current film renaissance as a way for film to truly find its own place.
I like to think that CineStill had a fairly big part in the revival of analog film culture; indeed they did something that no one else was doing and even today no one else really does. Yet in many ways, what CineStill does is something that has been around for years now.
There are two brand new film emulsions on the market today: they're called Dubblefilm Moonstruck and Dubblefilm Sunstroke. These films are a collaboration between KONO! and Dubble; and they're available only in the 35mm format.