spiderbraids

New year, "new" film brand :-)

In the early part of 2024, I got one roll each of the newly-revived German film company Orwo's color films, NC400 and NC500, on separate trips to my usual lab (IIRC, THB420 and THB380, or USD12 and USD11, respectively; I do remember the NC500 having a low price for an ISO 400 film) Despite the names though, both are nominally ISO 400, and I decided to try the NC500 first, in the Kodak H35 from October 2024 to January 2025 :-)

In fact, this forum post suggests it should be treated as ISO 250, and many of the shots turned out rather darker/grainier than I would have expected from an ISO 400 film... The most telling sign of this is that I only got 61 scans from back from the lab, compared to 77 from the previous half-frame roll, with a few of the scans straddling the frame boundary (That said, it also seems to overexpose the sky easily) This review says that NC500 is based on an old Agfa cinema film, also noting that "NC500 is not a true-to-life film" and adding that the color is "de-saturated, slightly under-exposed when shooting at box-speed, low in contrast, high in grain, very green and very yellow", which looks about right from my results...

Weirdly, even though the box has a blue stripe on it, its lower-numbered red-striped sibling is the one that produces blue-toned photos :-\ (well, supposedly, I'm shooting it full frame as of this writing)

Partially lightstruck shot of the Faculty of Science, with a Congratulations banner, and a photographer taking photos of a graduate

Flagpole surrounded by flags representing the faculties of the university

Graduation atmosphere between morning and afternoon (also note the different coloration)

Flower and souvenir merchants
(Crop on the latter; look at that grain)

Mitrtown celebrating its 5th anniversary
(Rainy day and fair weather)

More graduation atmosphere

Traffic near the uni on graduation day, looking from Mitrtown towards Baiyok 2 tower

Graduate photo shoot at the Faculty of Education garden

Graduation celebration mural

A closer shot of the faculty flags, after graduation

University friendly volleyball matches

Bangsue Central Station, taken from the Purple Line

Crossing the river...

...on the way to the Central Westgate shopping mall (haven't been here for a while)

Uni stadium renovations

Halloween decor at Mitrtown

Halloween pet pageant

Mitrtown Christmas tree, looking more conventional than last year's

Light tunnel

Central Ladphrao Christmas tree

New track at uni stadium, with workers painting the markings (could almost feel like a photo from back when the original track was being laid, except for the tall building in the upper left, a condo which didn't exist back then :-))

Cat at uni, and here we see the automated frame splitting performing quite badly, with the next several frames after this straddling shots (the original shot did put the cat relatively centered)