Hi everyone and welcome back to my channel. I really appreciate you tuning in to another one of my analog photography videos and boys this a fun one today. Not only because of the film role that I will be talking about, but because I got to shoot it in the infamous and psychedelic city of Blackpool UK. Which is where the party really happens. If you know, you know. I've had the pleasure to spend some time in England with my friend Anthony from the Focal Matter Channel, which I will link in the description below in case you're not subscribed to him yet. He makes great videos about film photography and I'm sure you're gonna enjoy his content. Now the film stock I tried out while there is the flick film Electro 100. And my lab is a little backed up during these summer weeks and this specific film role was one that I was just itching to get developed. Now my photos have finally arrived and I just can't wait to talk about this film. I must say Blackpool is quite an intense place. So my photos didn't come out as great as I had pictured in my mind because I guess I caught some Blackpool fever and I just started snapping without much rhyme or reason. I missed some great shots as you do and although some did come out great. Others really do show how much I lost my composure and just pretended that composition doesn't exist. But I will be showing them all to you throughout this video because if nothing else they will at least be able to demonstrate the wonderful features of the Electro 100 film stock. So flick film is a Canadian company based out of Alberta and just reading about it I felt really great about grabbing this film role because they feel strongly about ecology and they care about respecting the environment with their products and their packaging. The role I grabbed as I said was the Electro 100 which is a color negative 35 millimeter film with an ISO of 100 and it's daylight balanced. I actually bought this role when I was traveling to the Czech Republic and I'm glad I did because it's quite hard to come across here in Paris. In preparation of shooting this role I actually emailed flick film for some tips and some information about this film stock. So huge shout out to Dave from flick film who has kindly answered my email and given me some great information about this role. So as Dave explains Electro 100 is a respooled Kodak era color 4. It is an industrial grade film used for mapping and at one time was a surveillance film suitable for spide planes. It is a tea grain film so it has a really fine grain. Of course the colors are also very accurate since it wouldn't be suitable for agricultural spying if the colors were off. Dave further says that the film loves full light so feel free to shoot it in the middle of the day but it is also UV sensitive so it's also good for twilight shots. So with this information I was glad that I chose this film for the black pull outing. Sure our activities were probably the furthest thing from agricultural spying but we got a glorious sunny day and just an overload of people and colors to really test the film's features. Plus apparently Anthony really thrives in black pull. For most of the day we zoomed around the black pull c-front and encountered many sunburned people and families on vacation and just people living their best lives. Personally we didn't go on any rides because we were there for business but we definitely did indulge in some of the vices black pull had to offer. So what you will find with this film is that it is very sharp and thanks to its features also allows for high resolution scanning. It also makes it possible to zoom in quite a lot without losing any clarity. This shot for example was rubbish but look how much you can zoom in while retaining great detail. It is a given that codec error color has a really good ability to reproduce the most minute details due to its original high altitude juices. This goes hand in hand with the really fine grain which is still slightly present but really carries a lot of information within it. The film color rendition is absolutely top notch. I noticed that in some cases it was slightly warm and sometimes lean slightly towards magenta based on your lighting conditions in the moment. As you can notice in this photograph for example but in different photographs the colors were completely on point. And you can get rid of your pinkish fuse in editing afterwards. In some cases I enjoyed the fuse and so I just let them be. Like in this one where I just introduced myself into some strangers family picture. The film has a very wide dynamic range and deals with contrasts really well. It also has a white exposure latitude which is backed up by its use in geological pollution, archaeological crop and forestry studies, traffic control, city planning and remote sensing as per the codec error color technical brochure. For all of these situations the film really has to allow for a versatile and accurate image capture so you really should be able to count on a very high performance with this film stock. Now mind you the film has an ISO of 100 so it is quite low and I compensated for this with my shutter speed. But this led to some of my pictures coming out a little blurry. Like this one or this one which particularly painted me. Towards the end of the day when the sun got a little lower and the fun got just a little too much for us to handle we ventured more into the city center. Despite the lower light the film performed exceptionally well. The colors were just as vibrant and the images were just as sharp. As you can see in this picture of an abandoned ice cream cone which really accurately represented our energy levels at this point the colors still pop and the images still very clear. The electric 100 is supposed to be very light sensitive as aerial film should be and it definitely delivers on this promise. In this shot the sun was already starting to set and you can still see the great colors and sharpness in contrasts and it still handles the mixed lights surprisingly well. At one point in the evening we also came across this very characteristic building which I definitely could have shot better. But you can still appreciate how well the film handles shadows and it's wide dynamic range. Like I said I was a little overexcited on this trip and I went through my role just a little too quickly and that despite the 36 exposures. So I didn't have any left for those twilight pictures that Dave recommended in his email but I was really pleased with the film's performance and so I will be getting a new batch just to test those out a little. Now some more technical details for your film nerds out there. The Electra and the Kodak Error Color have an anti-highlighting layer undercoat and dyed gel backing which enhances the film's performance and just your overall quality and the emulsion is also abrasion resistant for a better overall durability and to protect your photos in the processing stage. So besides being a complete fever dream of a city blackpool was actually a pretty good place to take some street shots unless you panic like I did. There were just so many people and so that's why some of my shots came out really overcrowded and a little too chaotic. But there was so much going on in all the different directions and so many interesting people to photograph and it was a completely different vibe to a city like Paris that I'm used to and that despite the fact that they try to make me feel as it home as possible with their rendition of the Eiffel Tower. Still I was a little out of my comfort zone in some situation and not quick enough to pull the trigger. So I keep remembering all of the pictures that I didn't take. Most of which are for sure better than the pictures I did take but it was really nice to switch things up a little bit. Maybe with some more time or a second time around I would be able to isolate some photo opportunities a little better. But what counts is that I had a lot of fun even though it was probably not as much fun as these ladies had. So if you want to shoot the Kodak Error Color and you do not have access to the flick film version you can also find it respould in roles such as Washiiix or the Santa color. I found the Electra to be a cheaper alternative but that just really depends on where in the world you're located. So let me know if you've been able to shoot any version of the Kodak Error Color yourself and how it went for you. So thank you so much for hanging out with me today and play Go Check out Anthony at the Focal Matter Channel. Please also go check out flick film because besides the Electra 100 they also carry a variety of other films including cine films which are respould Kodak Vision 3. Much like the Silver Salts film that I made a video on a couple weeks ago. I will link it somewhere here on the screen. These cine films are really really fun to shoot. So thank you again for watching me ramble until the very end. I appreciate each and every one of you. I hope you have an amazing day and shoot some wonderful pictures. Bye bye.