 Yo what up welcome back to another episode of shooting tungsten film and not a single images of a gas station Today's episode is sponsored by Squarespace Well, I've been cooped up in the apartment for the past few days editing these dumbass videos So I figured it was time to treat myself a little so instead of binging cookie dough ice cream to the point where I puke it Myself and pass out I decided I'd go a little easier and just shoot a very special role of film So after digging through my box of film I discovered that I hoard film more than Baxter hordes his toys But after I got over that I remembered I had a roll of Portra 100t that was kindly sent to me by Reed Watson Thanks, Reed. You are a shining beam of tungsten light in the darkness And I apologize that I'm a lazy-ass degenerate that put off shooting this for so long So as Portra 100t the Cinestill 800t killer, let's find out With my Canon AE1 in hand and a one-quarter promise slapped on the front of the lens I headed out on my bike into the darkness. Oh, yeah, I've gotten into biking a little bit lately Guess I'll be buying a Subaru next and moving to Portland So Portra 100t is a discontinued line of Portra that was balanced for tungsten light or basically just any artificial lights in general It's 100 ISO and the role I have here expired in 2001. 2001 was about 20 years ago So the typical thing to do here is to overexpose one stop per decade Though as I've learned with my time here on YouTube Some people emphatically object to this guideline and those are the type of people that are a lot of fun at parties To be fair it is just a guideline It really only effectively applies to color negative film and ultimately depends on variables like how it was stored or what ISO it is So I took all that into due consideration before I ultimately just said fuck it and shot it at ISO 25 So I'll probably do 10 seconds Let's plug that into our reciprocity calculator. So 10 to the power of 1.3. Yep, again 20 seconds. So 20 seconds at f4 Getting this thing off the tripod such a pain in the ass. This is tripod just grips the shit out of it Now obviously ISO 25 is pretty damn low to be shooting at night But as little John would say get low as explained in the song Mr. John elaborates that getting lower ISO films might be beneficial if one is looking to render a finer-grain image and produce Substantially more extravagant colors Because we're doing longer exposures. We're gonna have to address reciprocity, which of course is everyone's favorite topic Basically on the night that I shot this I used a reciprocity factor of 1.3 as that's somewhere in the ballpark of most color-negative films I took the shot of a doorway and I was so convinced that it was gonna be straight fuego that I bracketed it Just to make sure that I would nail it thinking maybe I'll do a double for at a 20 seconds just to make sure get this shot. It's it's a really cool shot, but did I nail it? No Portrait 100 T was discontinued by Kodak in 2006 probably for several reasons Probably the biggest reason was that the digital camera judgment day was well upon the world at that point many Professionals who use this film for studio lighting our documentation night photography Etc probably just said the hell with it and shelled out the big bucks for an epic 2 megapixel camera another reason might be that a Lot of people including Kodak even might have thought that Ektar 100 was a more versatile film I won't get into what I think of Ektar here, but regardless it can go fuck itself What that was a big-ass bird I could have killed you back sure that could have picked you up and flew you off to its nest Hey, how's it going? Oh, yeah Ready set go if you're wondering how much this film cost back in the day I found a old review from May of 2001 by the homie Ken Chan just kidding I don't know who the f**k Ken Chan is but in his review He said it's quite expensive at seven dollars a roll. Well Ken try to enjoy it. I'd hate to show you film prices today Okay, all right ready steady spaghetti Unfortunately a lot of these neighborhood shots turned out slightly blurry because I was rattling the camera While I was holding the shutter release and the 135 millimeter is Extrasensitive to any movement whatsoever like how for some reason my nipples are extra sensitive after I watch the notebook Rest a prosy that's about 55 seconds Don't bump the tripod back stir Or are you going back to the pound? Since this films is dead as Luke Skywalker's parents It may be kind of hard to find when I recorded this there were some eBay listings for this film in 120 that listed it for about 25 bucks a roll Later on I returned to everybody's favorite pool But instead of capturing the wide shot that apparently I can't live without I decided to throw on the 135 millimeter and capture some vignettes Before I wrap this video up I'd like to take a moment to thank today's sponsor Squarespace if you're looking to build a website Squarespace has the smoothest and most intuitive user interface You don't need to download any plug-ins patches or 12-hour software updates that frankly don't change anything Squarespace has professional easy-to-use templates for whatever it is that you do Photography music flaming jump rope everything as a photographer I've been using Squarespace for about four years now And it's just the perfect setup to exhibit my portfolio as well as create an all-in-one hub for access to my print shop My channel and other social media links if you're ready to build a website You can start a free trial today at Squarespace comm slash grainy days And if you use the code grainy days at checkout you can get 10% off your first purchase Anyway, is portrait 100 T gangsta or not gangsta. I think it's gangsta I love the saturated colors, especially the reds and yellows that it seems to bump up They apparently made this film for 120 as well as large format sheets And I got to say I think this film would be really cool on 120 portrait 100 T is in general a much more saturated film than Sinisterl 800 T but I think overall I'm not really a fan of the low ISO Especially when it's expired and you kind of have to rate it two stops over I realize that you can't really have a film that does high ISO and high saturation But hey a girl can dream ultimately I don't think this film was as expired as maybe it could have been but regardless I think the shots turned out pretty cool, which is surprising to me because I suck. This is my favorite shot I think the composition is pretty solid and the colors and glow make it feel very moody So that's it. Thanks for watching. I'm gonna go throw up