More Japan photos! These are from Kyoto, all on UltraMax 400:
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that ultramax is looking good! damn!
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sorry for spamming but I just got so many dang pictures!!! This is beginning of the Osaka portion of the trip, on UltraMax 400
next up I had to buy more film because I ran out. Got a Japanese brand called Marix, the film is 800T. It’s apparently equivalent to the Kodak CineStill line.
Dotonbori day vs night
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I’m getting SEGA vibes from this photo 
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I love these. Reminds me I still need to develop the film I have from while I was in Japan earlier this year.
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More great shots, don’t worry about spammin! It looks like the darker it got the better the exposure on the marix!
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last drop!!! Shibuya and Shimokitazawa
Shibuya on Kodak ColorPlus 200:
Last roll of the trip was Fujifilm, the only Fuji I’ve used so far. Fujichrome Provia 100F, couple Shibuya shots first:
Shimokitazawa:
It was so much fun to shoot film in Japan. Like many of us here I’ve been seeing different aspects of what the country looks like throughout my entire life and seeing everything in person for the first time, and really looking at it while taking pictures, felt like such a privilege.
I think the UltraMax400 was the best of the bunch for this particular trip, especially when it was more sunny out. Osaka was really overcast and rainy so I didn’t get as many pictures that “pop” because of that, along with the unique aspects of some of the film I chose. Though some of them were still great in their own way! I’m still a beginner so every new roll I get is basically a learning experience. What I’ve posted here is maybe like 40% of the pictures I took, the rest were just bad lol. Hope all my forum friends have enjoyed these!
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very nice! the ones from Shimokitazawa are my favorite, I love the color.
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I really like that colorplus! It’s cool you got to try so many different rolls. I’ve been trying a lot too in the last few years and the conclusion I came to is basically they are all good except for the expired ones unless I dramatically mess up the exposure.
Did you by chance send all your film through the xray machine at the airport? I am going to Japan in May and might get a similar chance to shoot a lot of film and people told me the scanner either has no effect whatsoever or can mess up your film and I haven’t gotten a clear answer.
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I put my film and camera in a ziploc freezer bag and asked for security to hand check it so that it didn’t go through the xray machine. The effect those have on film apparently changes depending on the type of machine used, most are harmful though I think, but seems better to just completely side step it.
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The new X ray scanners (big cylinder looking things) will zap your film regarldess of speed. Old ones are safe under 800ISO but politely asking for a hand check is always best. If you can find a spot to develop film while you’re in Japan that’ll save the headache on the return (and help any troubleshooting any bad results). Considering picking this up for future international travels: DO NOT X-RAY film pouch — SISSILU
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I’ll have to do the hand check! Thanks for the info. Maybe I’ll grab that little pouch.
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Kindness and persistence has always worked for hand checks for me. Flying back from Turkey last week they have the new Xrays with nice “NO FILM” symbol stickers on them, but security insisted they were safe to send film through. Having google translate ready to go with the hand check ask and patience thankfully did the trick. Was scared I was going to lose the Super 8 film I shot.
Handy website to help prep for any problem airports:
https://www.handcheckfilm.com/airports
As bad and annoying as the TSA is, they are required to complete handchecks when requested and I have never had a problem in the states.
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doesn’t matter with iso400 or less film for carryon. if you’re shooting a lot of 1600 or pushing film then maybe you need to worry, otherwise as long as you’re not going through 10-20 checkpoints on the same trip i’d save the hassle. source : i’ve carried probably 2,000 rolls for 20+ years through airport security and the only time i’ve ever had the typical xray death wobbles show up it’s because it was checked through frankfurt.
what’s different about frankfurt?
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The new CT scanners are much stronger and the TSA/manufacturers recommend hand checks for all film speeds. They’re starting to be more common in major airports, the ones in Istanbul even had “No Film” stickers.
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oh man, i stand corrected! i guess my normal asian routes do not have these scanners yet. it does seem like 400 is relatively unaffected, especially if it’s 35mm. 120 cinestill is about the worst you could choose for this experiment, especially since it’s 250d with remjet removed. I probably still won’t bother as in my experience my typical 35mm film doesn’t show any ill effects (maybe having an aluminum suitcase helps? i don’t know!)
my only fogging experience remains frankfurt, where they not only scanned it at security but absolutely blasted it when i was pulled aside with about 15 other people for extra screening.
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Oh yeah, I finally finished migrating all my older film-photos to my own site, so now I can finally start posting them again in something-more-like-real-time
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that snow one is perfect. what a place to bleed out.
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