 Dear future Jason, please watch this really quick and formative video if you ever smack your head so hard Do you completely forget how to shoot 35 millimeter film? Glad I made the video Today's episode is sponsored by Squarespace Don't worry. You're not accidentally on drugs. That's just how this film stock is supposed to look. Yep I'm talking about Lomo turquoise, lemographies next foray into film stocks that make it look like you just butt chug Silcymon. Turquoise has actually been around in the past But it was discontinued by Lomography way before Fuji made discontinuing film cool back in 2018 I had a chance to shoot some turquoise in 120 and I definitely wasn't a fan I found it to be too weird and detached from reality But then again, I didn't know what the f*** I was talking about in 2018 last year in 2021 when Lomography announced the reunion tour for Lomo turquoise a lot of people were in one of two camps camp That's awesome. I can't believe we get turquoise back or camp what the f*** is this? At first I definitely belonged to that second camp but when Lomography reached out and sent a roll my way I decided to sack up and give it another shot. After all I've changed a lot since 2018 Not only do I get hangovers even if I don't drink but I also shoot Lomo purple pretty consistently So maybe this turquoise thing has some legs Anyway, my forbidden temptation Caleb and I headed out to Malibu and after struggling to load the m6 In front of a crowd of laughing onlookers for what felt like two hours We finally got around to shooting some beautiful architecture and saturated colors Turns out the saturated colors thing is kind of useless. This film stock turns literally every color into either turquoise or orange It's kind of like a Hollywood movie colorist in that way But yeah, I'd say that that's the iconic characteristic of this film stock. It turns deep blue skies orange Furthermore, as you can see from this bad photo, I turned the yellow flowers here turquoise. So yeah turquoise and orange That's it. That's all you get. You can either make peace with that now or grow old and yell at the neighborhood kids about it From your front porch the choice is yours I guess the upside to all this is that you don't really need to wait for that rich gorgeous sunset light because turquoise will probably mute it overall Anyway, here's what it does to skin tones. It pretty much decimates them Caleb looks like a cold emotionless and apathetic robot, which is definitely my brand So to my understanding the roll that I received is sort of a pre-production test roll And it came in a lomo purple cartridge. So I don't know if it's going to have DX coding or even what the final label is going to look like on the label for the roll that I got It was listed as 400 iso. So I guess if nothing else you can expect that from this stock I don't know if lomo is going to do that thing where they don't give you a dx code and then say you can shoot it Anywhere from 100 to 400 iso. I mean, that's great. But there's probably an iso it performs best at right? It's kind of like buying a new car and the driver's manual says you can use any gas to run this engine From 93 octane all the way down to literally just farting directly into the tank An early production roll basically means take all of my photos in this video with a grain of c41 Between when this roll was made and now lomo could have made some changes to the secret formula This may or may not be the final version of the lomo turquoise that we're gonna get They might still be tweaking the chemistry. I don't know. I wish I knew more to tell you all but um It's not like mr. Lomography and I hang out on the weekends and do whatever it is kids do nowadays like netflix and chill or whatever I can imagine that lomo will have the same output for this stock as they do for lomo purple Which means we'll probably see it in 35 120 and 110 If it were to ever come to large format 8 by 10, I think I'd get lomography's logo tattooed on my ass permanently out of pure excitement Don't worry. It's just a photo of the inside of my elbow When I saw these photos for the first time, I was immediately reminded of led zeppelin's album Houses of the Holy which features altered colors and a vibrant orange sky No, it wasn't shot on lomo turquoise, but with that album in mind I started to see my photos a little bit differently somehow Maybe it's that I started imagining all these photos as album covers, which I definitely feel like as lomo turquoise is true calling Wait the roll that I received is only 24 frames long. So that's all you get for now I guess the only remaining question is is this film stock downright nasty or not downright nasty? I think it's for sure nasty as hell. It's very grainy and it definitely pops really nicely in well It seems like this one. It's definitely a look only a mother could love But hey, that's what they used to say about me when I was a baby and I turned out Adequate I think the big takeaway from all this is that we're incredibly lucky that there is a company out there Putting in the work and creating the infrastructure to make tasty new film stocks In a world where new film stock is the stuff of urban legends like bigfoot the chupacabra and eating steamed vegetables without gagging All we as film photographers should want is more options more film stocks to have a hard time Deliberating over when we head out to take photos. 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You can start a free trial today at squarespace.com slash grainy days And if you use the code grainy days at checkout you can get 10 off your first purchase So what do you think are you excited that lomo is bringing turquoise back or is this film stock just to Tripping absolute ball sack on acid for you. I'm happy to say I get the look now It's a look that I wasn't evolved enough in 2018 to understand completely But now I harbor a greater appreciation for it, which might be in part thanks to led zeppelin. It's artsy and it's abstract While perhaps it's not the first film stock. I'm gonna think of to shoot most scenes with I do hope to revisit it soon I say hope because it's projected to come out in september of this year And the pre-order for it is already long sold out that and I don't like to make promises that I can't keep because Who knows volcanoes are still an omnipresent threat. You can't run from them not even in your nightmares