I'd bought a couple of rolls a few weeks back, one 35mm, one 120 for a test. All the cool Youtubers were shooting it & i didn't want to feel left out. Or more likely, I was just curious. A gorgeous spring weekend weather tempted me, so I grabbed the Canon FTb, the 50mm, 28mm and 135mm lenses (plus the Super Ikonta III), the rolls of Phoenix and headed 20 odd km north to Paremata and the Pauatahanui Inlet.
I shot the roll at EI125, which seems from all I had gathered from various forums and videos a good starting point. Now scanning it proved to be rather challenging. I tried scanning on the V700 with Silverfast, with Epson Scan 2, scanning as a negative with various film types in Silverfast, and scanning as a positive and inverting in Affinity Photo. I also tried some DSLR scanning with the Panasonic G9 and a Canon 50mm f3.5 macro lens.
The film doesn't seem to have much in the way of latitude, and can be prone to some quite wild colour swings if you don't get things just right. Some of the negatives didn't look that challenging, but eventually proved impossible to get anything reasonable. If I shoot another roll in 35mm, I'll try shooting at box speed, though from my results I'd expect pretty grotty shadows.
Scanning as a positive and inverting, either with the V700 or the G9 seems to be the most consistent route. Using the hi-res mode on the G9 seemed to produce the cleanest "scans" when scaling down to 3200x4800 pixels.
Perhaps my happiest accident:
