 What's better than getting that annual Happy Holidays card from your dentist? That's right, Acta Chrome Christmas 3. Today's episode is sponsored by Squarespace. Well, it's time for the third installment of An Acta Chrome Christmas. Will it be great or will it simply fade into obscurity like the rest of them? Probably the latter, but f**k it, let's do it anyway. Like we all know, the third movie in a trilogy is always the best one. Just look at The Godfather Part 3, The Matrix 3, Spider-Man 3, Alien 3, Jurassic Park 3, and of course, the zenith of cinematic greatness, Stuart Little 3. As you can probably tell, I decided to do things a little bit different this year. Of course, I picked up some Kodak Acta Chrome, but this time in Tiny Ant Size, or Super 8 as it's more commonly known. I had two cartridges and stuffed them in my Nikon R10. So, let's jump into it like a skydiver without a parachute. Here's some underexposed footage of Monica in our apartment. I guess I drastically underestimated how far I could stretch a 100 ISO film. Alright, so unfortunately one of the cartridges would soon jam up after I filmed maybe 15 seconds of footage. Insert joke about only lasting 15 seconds. The footage that should be here is a hike I did with my brother. Anyway, back to the Super 8 footage. Here's me driving my trusty forerunner to Northern California. We took Highway 101 instead of the 5 because it's more scenic and doesn't smell like cow s**t. You may have noticed our dog Baxter has slimmed down a bit. He's actually been on a year-long diet, which he isn't happy about. But he's gone from a beefy Pentex 6.7 down to a collapsible Makina 6.70. So, we're proud of the little ham. Here he is praying to airbud that we accidentally drop up high. Anyway, it was time to bake. Not the 4.20 kind, but the sugar overload kind. Here's some cookies I was forced to labor over as part of our ritualistic holiday bake sesh. Consider this my formal application for the Great British Bake Off. This is my 100 year old cat Charlie, plotting to ruin Christmas for us. The next day, we went to the beach with our son Baxter. While we were interested in the beautiful coastal scenery, he was mostly interested in eating kelp and sand. Back at the house, things were starting to feel pretty magical. Whether that was a result of underexposed ectochrome or the 6 pounds of sugar coursing through our veins, we'll never know. Every year for Christmas, my mom makes something called gooey butter cake, which is very nutritious. Not for your body, nutritious for your soul. That s**t will f**k up your arteries real quick. We got some Jagermeister for Christmas, which I've gotten every year from Santa since I was 6. So it was nice to keep the tradition alive. And of course follow up Christmas morning with Jagerbombs. So it actually rained on Christmas for us, which I was very happy to see. Hell, growing up in California, it's the closest I've come to a snowy Christmas, so I'll take it. Here's Monica, blacked out from too many Jagerbombs. Smash cut to Monica, hung over the next morning. There's my mom, eating her dog the same way she fed my brother and I while we were growing up. Real quick, before we wrap up this video, I'd like to thank today's sponsor, Squarespace. If you're a photographer looking to build a platform to display your work to impress clients, friends, family, people on dating apps, etc., then Squarespace is the way to do it. Squarespace is an all-in-one website building platform with hundreds of templates for you to select, from photography to sports to design to making corn dogs, if that's what you're into. I use Squarespace to host my photography portfolio online because every template they offer yields a very professional and sleek look, with little to no work on my end, and that's how it should be. 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And with cartridge errors like this one that blank the majority of your film, I'm not going to be jumping with joy at the chance to shoot it again. So, I don't know, did you think the ectochrome looked good? If you did, tell me why in the comments. I won't respond, but go ahead and do it anyway. I hope you all had a good holiday break, and were gifted plenty of cinna still. I will see you again in two weeks.