A lot to the enjoyment of us Northern California movie shooters, Beer & Cameras Sacramento lately reawakened after its lengthy Covid slumber. To mark the event, I introduced my Leica M3, the superior 50mm f/2 Twin-Vary Summicron, and an expired roll of Kodak Supra 400 to their meetup at an area brewery. In fact, the meetup was a load of enjoyable — and I walked away with worse G.A.S. than ever earlier than — however the actual star of the night was this outdated roll of Kodak Supra.
Kodak Supra 400 and its siblings, Supra 100 and 800, had been short-lived skilled daylight-balanced colour destructive movies. Launched roughly the identical time as Portra within the late 90s, Supra shortly fell by the wayside and was discontinued round 2003. Despite its unlucky historical past, Supra was well liked by many as a result of it delivered stronger distinction and saturation than Portra whereas not compromising on nice pores and skin tones.
With all that being stated, practically 20 years have handed for the reason that dying of Supra and getting first rate outcomes from such an outdated movie generally is a lengthy shot. Nonetheless, I examined my luck and shot the movie in broad daylight at EI 25.
After creating the roll in Cinestill C-41 developer kit, I used to be relieved to see that the held up higher than anticipated. There was undoubtedly some base fog and muddy shadows however in any other case, the photographs turned out fairly good! As someone who’s extra accustomed to capturing Portra, I’m not the largest fan of the poor shadow element this movie is thought for. In any other case, I discovered the colour saturation and greens to my liking and must maintain this in thoughts the following time a shoot with Supra. Luckily, I’ve three extra rolls of this movie, so I’m wanting ahead to snapping some extra golden hour recollections.
~ Brendan
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