Lomo announced the availability of their new 35mm ISO 400 negative film - LomoChrome Color '92.
New LomoChrome Color '92 negative film
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If I had to guess I'd say definitely something made by Inoviscoat. Still a maskless, grainy C-41 film, but a step from Metropolis towards something resembling a normal C-41 film. Like Orwo NC500/NC400 that are also produced by Inoviscoat.
Sorry, I meant one of their color surveillance films, like Aviphot Color 400. I don't think it's being made anymore, but Lomo might have gotten their mitts on a large enough batch to make it worthwhile to sell.
Maybe. Would be nice/interesting, but I have my doubts.
Interesting. I'm going to order a roll or two to test...
Looks pretty close to NC400
Agfa XRG was revised in 1992...
Finally shot my first Lomochrome '92 roll over the weekend.
Shot at box speed - 400:
(click for full 4000dpi resolution)
I found out that Lomochrome '92 is now also available in 120 and 110. Ordered a couple of 110s. This film is very grainy, it will be interesting to see how the tiny 110 frames will come out.
Apart from grain, I think this is a surprisingly decent film. Certainly nothing like Metropolis. Obviously, Inoviscoat is slowly moving towards a "proper" negative colour film.
Here is a quick scan of Kodak Ektar 100, Lomography Lomochrome 400 '92, Orwo NC500 and Lomography Metropolis side-by-side:
Shot at box speed - 400:
(click for full 4000dpi resolution)
I found out that Lomochrome '92 is now also available in 120 and 110. Ordered a couple of 110s. This film is very grainy, it will be interesting to see how the tiny 110 frames will come out.
Apart from grain, I think this is a surprisingly decent film. Certainly nothing like Metropolis. Obviously, Inoviscoat is slowly moving towards a "proper" negative colour film.
Here is a quick scan of Kodak Ektar 100, Lomography Lomochrome 400 '92, Orwo NC500 and Lomography Metropolis side-by-side:
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That's a good idea to use "chrome" in a color negative name...
At least they've been consistent in the naming so far. All LomoChromes are experimental colour films from Inoviscoat. None of the true C-41 films that they get from Kodak (or from other expired stocks) have "chrome" in their name. Well, not even slide film that they used to sell until recently had "chrome" in the name.
What exactly is it that you are going to test? What is the nature of the tests that you are going to conduct?
I would take 2-3 rolls to see if I like the colors. A lot of people don't like the pastel/retro look, but I'm not one of them. The measurements shown look good, but it's another thing to try them myself
By the way - strange color of the masks...
All Kodak (and Agfa) colour reversal films have chrome in their name (Kodachrome, Elite Chrome, Ektachrome).
I'm well aware of that. I said that Lomography never used "chrome" in names of slide films that they sold under Lomography branding. But now I remembered that they in fact did use to sell Lomography X-Pro Chrome 100 film, which was a slide film but marketed as a film for cross-processing in C-41.
After that they've been pretty consistent with the use of "chrome" in their names. All their experimental films coated by Inoviscoat were named LomoChrome and none of the proper C-41 produced by Kodak were sold with "chrome" in the name.
I'm not a big spender of LomoChrome films, but I have tried (see, I didn't say "tested", yay!!!) at least one roll of every stupid film they've come up with. So far, if you are looking for a good regular C-41 film, you'll find 99 problems with the LomoChrome films, but the name is not one of them. Unless, you place a lot of importance on the labels and not on the stuff itself.
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But confusingly, not all Kodak films with chrome in their name were slide films - e.g. Verichrome/Verichrome Pan.
Which gets to one of my minor pet peeves: people using "chrome" as a synonym for slides/photos on reversal film. I get that it's because slide films have mostly all had chrome in the name, but as far as I know, that's because of the precedent set by Kodachrome (and autochromes even earlier). Chrome from "chroma" just means color.
Finally shot my first Lomochrome '92 roll over the weekend.
Shot at box speed - 400:
(click for full 4000dpi resolution)
I found out that Lomochrome '92 is now also available in 120 and 110. Ordered a couple of 110s. This film is very grainy, it will be interesting to see how the tiny 110 frames will come out.
Apart from grain, I think this is a surprisingly decent film. Certainly nothing like Metropolis. Obviously, Inoviscoat is slowly moving towards a "proper" negative colour film.
Here is a quick scan of Kodak Ektar 100, Lomography Lomochrome 400 '92, Orwo NC500 and Lomography Metropolis side-by-side:
Oh, nice, Innovis figured out masking! Still kinda foggy, but it certainly looks better than NC500
BTW, what's the deal with NC mask? It varies from green in c41 to pinkish-brown in ecn, how does that work?
Finally shot my first Lomochrome '92 roll over the weekend.
Shot at box speed - 400:
(click for full 4000dpi resolution)
I found out that Lomochrome '92 is now also available in 120 and 110. Ordered a couple of 110s. This film is very grainy, it will be interesting to see how the tiny 110 frames will come out.
Apart from grain, I think this is a surprisingly decent film. Certainly nothing like Metropolis. Obviously, Inoviscoat is slowly moving towards a "proper" negative colour film.
Here is a quick scan of Kodak Ektar 100, Lomography Lomochrome 400 '92, Orwo NC500 and Lomography Metropolis side-by-side:
Thank you very much for posting your results.
Really interesting!
What I take from this is that Inoviscoat are significantly closer to getting a feasible, C41 colour negative film. I'm not going to buy at that price while Kodak Ultramax and Color Plus are still around....but this is encouraging. Might actually look decent in 120 as long as it's not enlarged too big. Colours look decent enough.
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