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I'm gonna be teaching you how to do the stanky leg Oh wait, no, I'm saving that home run for one of my channel tanks Actually now might be a good time Today's episode is sponsored by Squarespace Well, I was recently sitting in a movie theater taking in the best picture contender of the year Minions the rise of Gru when it hit me like a volleyball spike straight into a nutsack a sudden overwhelming feeling of despair You see it soon began weighing on me that I would have to do yet another review of a film stock I've been growing pretty weary about doing a film stock review videos lately because I kind of just feel like there isn't a lot to Say about them Portra's got pastel tones gold has warmth and lomo purple is a bag of ass But when a new film stock gets dropped I realized that I suddenly need something to cling on to the hope that film is still truly alive Because it's all I got at this point against all odds 2022 has actually been a hit year for new film stocks with the latest announcement coming from our colleagues overseas in Sweden It seems like the team over there found a fresh line of material and they want to get it produced for the world to shoot with However, there are some caveats to all this because nothing in life is easy if it were I probably wouldn't have an 82 minute mile time in high school because I ran the wrong way for 30 minutes So that's all very exciting. But what is this film all about? Is it bussin or not bussin on God for real? I was lucky enough to receive two roles of what they're calling Santa color Which is a 100 ISO film stock that can be developed in C41 This isn't their first film stock to be called Santa as they originally did a black and white film called Santa ray 1000 I don't really know what their obsession with Santa Claus is all about but it is but it is I for one I'm all for more color negative film options But what does the stock actually look like on the campaign website? It says that Santa color 100 is actually an aerial surveillance film, which sounds kind of creepy Anyway, the team overseas reached out and asked if I'd be interested in test driving it at the time They gave me a little bit of information about it, but I really had no idea what it looked like So I grabbed my Leica M6 and my forbidden fruit Caleb to find out what this film stocks got to offer us once and for all So first impressions of this film stock it seems to lean pretty heavily into the orange yellow red purple and brown part of the spectrum which I totally dig Though admittedly it doesn't necessarily translate for every shot if you know anything about me You know that I always try to exaggerate the color brown in all of my work And this film stock seems to not only slap you in the ass with it, but then make intense eye contact afterwards. I Mean the building itself was brown So maybe I'm reading too much into it like usual But regardless here's a comparison of this same location, but on Kodak gold 200 overall I think that the Santa color has more of a sharp red cast like my eyes when I'm really hung over or I've been crying a Lot which usually go hand-in-hand 14 shots Down the road was a ski lift that was precariously placed on small cliff right next to the highway as if the builders wanted to Watch out-of-control skiers fly off into traffic and violently die Like there's no way someone could have skied down that At some point I switched out the sumacron to the Voigtlander 12 millimeter because I love super wide lenses As well as the number 12 12 hours 12 angry men 12 inches long etc So where did Santa color come from? Sadly not the North Pole because Santa isn't even real as I learned when I was like 17 It's fun to have new film stocks pop up to play around with but when they do their origins quickly become one of life's Greatest mysteries like how the hell does one milk a walnut on their indie go-go campaign? They actually mentioned it's from a major manufacturer in the United States Could it possibly be Kodak perhaps in disguise wearing a false mustache? I mean, I guess it could be we already know that Kodak will put out for a Cinestill and possibly Lomography so I guess it isn't totally out of the question just unlikely, but hey people grow and change I thought it was unlikely that I'd ever be able to take a dump at a girl's house But look at me now still can't do it But is this film stock actually new Interestingly enough on their campaign website They do say that this film stock has been available in the past in limited quantities under the name error color 125 Arrow color not to be confused with air chrome is a tea green emulsion with a slightly extended Sensitivity in the red end of the spectrum this extended Sensitivity actually seems to make foliage pop a bit more due to the reflected infrared light that the emulsion is picking up So mystery salt, right? It's arrow color 125 Yeah, I mean seems like maybe it is There's no actual key code information on the film strips, so I guess anything's possible I gotta say I do really appreciate how Transparent the team has been on their Indie go-go campaign It makes me have a lot more trust in them and trust is something that I lost a long time ago when my dog Baxter betrayed me in public and tried to kick his poo in my general direction Here's a shot of Caleb hitting us with the smulder or at least holding back really hard trying not to sh** himself on camera You make a face every time it goes off What are you impressed or something my ringtone? Yeah, it's cool. It's you on the toilet, right? Yeah, I was a particularly destructive day So as I was reloading the titanium leather daddy like a m6 I put the spent roll next to me on the barrier and like a total jackass with no object permanence I got up and went to shoot and then hopped in the car and drove off unaware of the dumb assery of my ways It wasn't until later when I nearly sh** my daisy duke cutoff shorts that I realized that I had left a comrade behind So Monica Baxter and I hopped in the car and headed up to the spot where I'd left it four hours later and dark with no one On the road we eventually pulled up and old girl was right where I left her You bastard So the film base on this stock is actually kind of interesting It's not spray tan orange like on a lot of c41 films It's actually kind of brownish like poo because of this Apparently the base color can actually throw off the color models on some scanners or so I've been told so much So that you might not get those sweet neritsu tones that you probably dream about every night at this point I scanned all these shots with a Sony a7r2 DSLR scanning setup and converted with negative lab pro using the default neritsu profile And number three default saturation model. No other edits were made except maybe a quick white balance adjustment here or there Anyway as e41 said we're out here trying to function as the Sun was piecing out for the day I decided to take a few blue hour shots in this one is by far the best But something I wanted to touch on real quick is halations. This stock has them They aren't as Taco Bell bathroom blown out as the Cinestills, but they're definitely there Additionally skin tones are kind of ass on this stock. It's kind of like Ektar Your subjects skin tones will look like they have a bad full-body rash But if you don't want your skin tones to look like your subject is sunburnt to hell and back Perhaps you can bask in the knowledge that this film stocks calling card is definitely landscapes I mean look at this shot warm majestic and the colors outright slap you harder than Will Smith So what if it's an old formula made new again? So what if it's only a hundred ISO so what if I wear women's deodorant? 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You can start a free trial today at Squarespace comm slash grainy days And if you use the code grainy days a check out you can get 10% off your first purchase So how do you get your hands on this film stock? You may be wondering as you're stroking your chin and possibly something else with your other hand Well, the campaign needs to be fully funded first according to the team behind the campaign They need a minimum of about 15,000 orders of 35 millimeter to produce a batch as of recording this video The campaign is about 47% funded and has about 19 days left on it I for one hope that it reaches its goal and we see Santa color brought to market the brown tones in this stock Just really call to me like painkillers after jogging But in all seriousness wouldn't it be nice to introduce a competitor to other hundred speed film stocks? I think so so if you're watching this video and going absolute plumb wild over these shots like I did I highly recommend that you head over to their Indiegogo campaign and throw down some gold doubloons Because if you don't then you forever lose the right to complain about how sh** the ektar is