 Yo, what up welcome back to another episode of Caleb's prostate exam And over Salutations and good tidings fellow scholars tonight. We're gonna be f**king up some ectochrome So the cool thing about Kodak's new ectochrome is that on the Kodak Alaris spreadsheet It says that you don't have to compensate for reciprocity up to 10 seconds So what does that mean for us when we shoot night photography? It means anything is possible tonight I'm gonna be shooting with my sweet baby Mamiya 7 and a Tiffin black chromis filter at one quarter So it's it's not bad. Oh, that looks so cool. Yeah, I'm like is it for Caleb cuz that's me Hey there, this isn't your conscious speaking. This is just Jason from the future So these were shot at a store that had a black light display out front now I don't know a whole lot about black lights But what I do know is that they're often used in movies to reveal why a cheap hotel bed is sticky And it's usually never blood or urine initially I was concerned that black light might exist somewhere on the light spectrum that some films don't register And while that might be the case It seems like ectochrome actually rendered the scene quite well in my opinion until I looked back at the footage And then I kind of noticed there's a bit of a disparity between the colors Ectochrome seems to have rendered the purple black light a bit more blue than it naturally appeared to the naked eye So I guess keep that in mind if you're gonna go shoot any black light raves anytime soon This is an interesting shot You know if you're boring and film photography excites you which is the truest definition of me The shot is notable because there's a lot of mixed lighting in frame and let's just say Ectochrome took some artistic liberties with the colors. I mean look at this LED light It's so goddamn turquoise most of the ectochrome shots had a purple slash blue cast to them But for some reason this shot rendered a load of cyan So I guess what I'm saying is watch out for those LED lights when you're shooting ectochrome Unless you are already planning on blasting your image with cyan anyway, then you're good All right, so the $13 question on everyone's mind is ectochrome a good film to shoot at night. Well Yes, and no mostly yes, I think though the dynamic range on ectochrome is actually pretty good It's still a color-positive film So it'll never be able to compete 100% with color-negative film Although Sinna still did come out with some chemicals recently for ectochrome that kind of seemed to magically do the impossible So We'll see how that develops as I mentioned earlier in the video Ectochrome is actually quite special because you don't need to adjust for reciprocity if your exposure is less than 10 seconds long Wow, that's incredible 10 seconds. I don't even brush my teeth that long. You may be thinking. Yeah It's pretty cool and added bonus is that ectochrome is actually damn near grainless And yeah Well, I did swear an oath to be grainy until the day that I meet my accidental volcano death more on that later We'll just have to pretend like this grainlessness never happened now as you can probably tabulate nighttime scenes are quite Contrasty depending on what you're shooting for example if you're shooting a light in an alleyway You may have to decide whether you want to expose for the highlights or the shadows another nighttime example would be if you're shooting Through someone's bathroom window and you decide to expose yourself in which case you should probably go to jail So yeah, I think in the end ectochrome is actually pretty rad to shoot in the evening The only problem you might run into is if your exposure time goes over 10 seconds You may have to do some guesswork or experimentation with the reciprocity in that case And of course the last downside is that if any other film photographers see you shooting ectochrome at night They may try and rob you because it ain't cheap