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Wait, this shit is not right Yeah Yeah, this is right Well, that was weird Want to give your basic family vacation photos the look of a gritty raw desaturated historical piece that depicts the violence and horrors of World War two directed by Steven Spielberg Well, you're not alone back in July of 2019 Lomography successfully launched their Kickstarter campaign to bring us the first new color negative film in over five years and me personally I'm down for it, especially since the look of it has been described as akin to a bleach bypass In fact, I was so excited about it I reached out to the homies at Lomography and they sent me two rolls of 35 millimeter to test out So here we are after the two rolls arrived via carrier iguana I decided to dive ass first into some research on the film and by research I mean look at pretty pictures that other people have taken with it now Lomography says metropolis can be rated anywhere from 100 to 400 ISO Which is great if you like variable ISO, but me I struggle with indecision like how for Valentine's Day I struggled with the decision to buy Monica flowers or nothing at all I'm not really a fan of the Shoot it between these ISOs that some companies do I guess I'm a simple man Give me an ISO and let me decide if I want to fuck it up or not There isn't a DX code on the cartridge either so it's truly up to you So after reading a few articles on this film I decided that the best ISO to shoot at would be 400 because Lomography claims that the darks on this film are simply epic I also thought the muted colors that this film offers would work better with more contrast as well So I called up the homie Caleb and said yo pimp. Let's go shoot an indistinct nearby metropolitan area So we headed to downtown Los Angeles aka the tightest city on the planet Aka the only city where you can sit in an hour of standstill traffic because someone's taken a dump off of a highway overpass I shot with my Canon AE1 and my Takamar 35 millimeter F2 Let me just say first up the packaging on this film is pretty dope. The highlighter look is fresh. It's hip It's sexy. It's unassuming. It's non-judgmental and most importantly, it's cheaper than therapy Some nerds out there may recognize the name metropolis because the film seems to be derived from the fictional city That Gandalf lives in in the hit musical diehard Lomacron metropolis is a c41 color negative film that Lomography claims is a brand new formula Something kind of interesting about this film when I got my film back after it was developed the film strip itself Had kind of a greenish base color whereas a lot of Kodak films have sort of an orange-ish base color Doesn't really mean anything. I just thought it was worth noting also Metropolis isn't imprinted with any technical information along the sides of the film where the sprocket holes are at least in 35 millimeter So yeah, if you're one of those people that scans with the film border It's just gonna be all black because there's no keycode information If you're like me and you scan with an Epson scanner since there's no keycode information It can be a little challenging sometimes getting the film facing the right side up when you're setting it in the tray Certainly not the end of the world. I just thought it was worth mentioning We went to the Bradbury building which only allows cell phone photography inside But uh at the risk of getting arrested thrown in some Alabama slammer and waking up married to some six foot two jacked guy Named surprise sausage Steve. I got this photo This film was available in 35 millimeter 120 and a wild card format 110 And if you're like what the hell is 110 and why should I give a damn? I'm right there with you Metropolis is also available in 8 millimeter and 16 millimeter for all you Hollywood types out there making movies Hell the only format missing from this lineup is large format, which would be super cool hinted II hint hint Lomography, I know you're watching So if you shoot it under artificial lighting your photos may not turn out exactly how you imagined like how I shot these photos at Grand Central Market and the colors kind of look like tungsten lit butthole in my opinion But let's not rule out the fact that I'm a photographer and you can probably do a lot better than me In fact, you can do anything today is your day be the best you that you can be Unless you're a serial killer then maybe you should focus on not killing people and maybe take up a hobby like collecting beanie babies or some There's definitely a fine green cast to this film like Metropolis is trying to tell us that we're living in the matrix or something Lomography also touts a very fine grain structure on this film. Yeah, there's definitely grain and by fine I think they mean fine in the same sense My girlfriend means it when she says it's fine. You didn't buy me flowers for Valentine's Day, which really means it's not fine I think what I'm trying to say is there's definitely a bit of grain to this film at least when shot at 400 I think if you shot at 200 or 100 you'd be better off for sure So if you're still going through that dark and edgy phase from high school Then this may be the film for you as it definitely utilizes the desaturated and high contrast look There's a good amount of latitude and while personally. I'm not a fan. There is flexibility in the ISO range Would I shoot metropolis again? Do squids piss ink? Yeah, I'll definitely be shooting it again I feel like a lot of color negative films have sort of a warmer undertone Whereas metropolis actually delivers a more cold crushing Soviet kind of look ultimately I'm super happy that lemography has done the seemingly impossible and given us a new color negative film I hope that we get to see this trend continue with lemography and hopefully they inspire other companies to do the same Looking at you Fuji. It's about time. We bring back natural 1600. Don't you think it is not right?