Fuji NPS 160 Medium Format Film - Bronica ETRSi

 

I have a range of expired films in the freezer.  The majority are 35mm but thankfully I also have some Medium Format rolls in there as well.  All are Fuji films and some Kmart brand Focal.  The Medium Format films I have left are Fuji; NPH 400, NPS 160, Velvia 100, and a dozen Provia 100F.  For the most part I have been using the negative films; the slide film is so expensive to develop and scan because I have to send it away to Sydney and postage doubles the cost.

This is the first roll of Fuji NPS 160 that I have used out of the collection.  In its day it was billed as a daylight film to be used for portrait and weddings in daylight or under electronic flash, low contrast and low saturation.  Because it is primarily a professional portrait film (in its day!) it was also said to have an extremely low grain.

I didn't use the rule of thumb for shooting expired negative film which is to drop the exposure value by 1 stop for every 10 years of expiration.  The film has been frozen for ages and I have always shot my expired film at box speed.  It has never caused me any problems and it has been the same for this roll.

I guess this film is 16 years or so past expiry, which is why it doesn't appear to have that 'extremely low grain' that it was originally billed as having.  It does have the low contrast feel to it and I had to tweak contrast slightly in Lightroom to get a pleasing (to me!) look.  The saturation also, does not appear to me to be 'low saturation'.  The colour in the majority of the photos is fine although, the photos that were taken on the brightest day, have a slight yellowing of the colour I think.

The photos taken on Lake Macquarie at Valentine were taken using a Cokin Circular Polariser filter.  This has given those photos a much bluer sky than the others.  I have only had that filter for a short while and I am looking forward to getting out and about with it more often.

I love shooting with the Bronica ETRSi and the Zenzanon Eii 75mm f2.8 lens is so sharp!

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The motorcycles were lined up on the main street of East Gresford, a small town in

the Hunter Valley.  Must have been lunch time at the local pub for the group.  It

was a pretty overcast day with spots of Sun shining through at times

These two were taken at Soldiers Point on the Karuah River.  Bright sunny day with a little

scattered cloud.  Not sure what is happening with the colour of the green moss on the rocks in 

the photo above while the photo below shows the signature low saturation of the film.

Taken at Tocal in the Hunter Valley on the same day trip as the Motor Cycles above.  Virtually

full sun for this photo.  The saturation for this photo has a slight yellow tinge the same

as the rocks in the photo above; the grass looked a lot greener in real life.

The three photos above are of this quaint church 'St Marys on Allyn' at Allynbrook in the 

Hunter Valley of New South Wales.  The day had turned darker by the time I

got here and I took the exposure reading from the Church walls.

  By the time I got home it was torrential rain!

For these last three, taken Valentine on Lake Macquarie, I used a Circular Polariser I had just 

picked up for my Cokin system.  It has certainly brought out the blues in the colour!