Fuji Natura 1600 shot in Spain
Before leaving Hawaii, I stopped in at one of the two local spots you could buy film and finally sprung on the big spendy Fuji Natura 1600, TWO frickin rolls of it. It cost me $100. (I was working two good jobs and had the money to spend on the luxurious and rare film I’d always dreamed of shooting)
Now to be totally honest, I’d shot one of the two rolls already but it got somewhat lost in the bunch last time all the scans came back from Seoul. Seoul? Yes. It actually saves me a lot of money to to ship to Seoul to the lab I love rather than getting it developed here in England. No, I’ve never developed film myself because I have no interest in doing that. I don’t romanticize the process and want nothing to do with it.
Fuji Natura 1600 iso is somewhat pastel in its colors and has soft tones. I would say it isn’t worth spending the money on unless you’re feeling super rich and accomplished. I have taken very similar photos on expired Kodak 800 and gotten that for $4 a roll. If you’re just wanting to tell other people that you have it and want to sound cool, go for it.
Okay so I shot this roll on my Olympus Mju ii, which, I also don’t really love doing. I would prefer to shoot this or any other special roll on a less basic camera that has better glass. I currently only have that one film camera so I don’t have the options I used to.
This is the best shot from the roll, a photo I took in Granada, Spain this past January.
These are a couple other shots that are also maybe the best from the roll:
The rest are just … they’re just shots from our life. I love them for that alone. This is what’s most important about shooting film cameras: It’s your memories and your moments and they’re seemingly more tangible and nostalgic and romantic. I don’t know why, they just are.
