I recently received a shipment of expired slide film from a seller in the States, and among the rolls of old Sensia and Provia I found several rolls of Photo Porst ChromeX100. I’d never yet shot with this film stock before, though I’d read many good things about it from local users. I was eager to try it out.
Loading a roll into an Olympus XA3, I took the film for a spin in and around Manila, Lemery and Taal. Below are some of the results.
Sky over Taal
Sidewalk Nap
Ex-house
Leggy Wife
School Zone
Intramuros Skate Park
Inside Orale!
Mother and Child
Not bad for film that expired in 2003, no?
When you analyze the photos in Photoshop, you’ll see that the age of the film has caused it to lose image data from the low end of the red channel and high end of blue, resulting in the distinct color tint you see in the photos. There’s almost a Mello Yello-Mountain Dew quality to the shots.
I tried to find out more about the film but didn’t learn much more. It was sold and distributed by Photo Porst, Germany’s largest camera retailer at one point but is sure to be a rebadged film stock from Japan. Some folks say it’s Fuji Sensia under all that Deutsche-ness. I can’t tell. What I can tell is that I have only two rolls left.
Gotta make those count.
For the full set of photos, go to the Travelomo Facebook page.
