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High Contrast Looks

Deep blacks, bright highlights and colour that clips rather than rolls off.

Slide film and fast instant film both give you contrast you cannot easily add back with a curve, because it comes with matching colour behaviour: saturation rises in the midtones while the extremes compress. These looks are unforgiving of exposure error — that is authentic, not a flaw — and they turn flat, overcast source images into something graphic.

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9 looks in this selection

Fuji Velvia 50

The most saturated colour film ever widely sold — the landscape photographer's signature.

1 rendering

Fuji Velvia 100

A faster, slightly tamer Velvia with a cooler bias than the original 50.

1 rendering

Kodak Ektachrome 100VS

Kodak's answer to Velvia: Very Saturated Ektachrome with a cooler, bluer bias.

2 renderings

Kodak Elite Extracolor 100

Elite Chrome with the saturation deliberately overdriven.

1 rendering

Agfa Ultra Color 100

Agfa's extreme-saturation negative film — louder than most slide films.

1 rendering

Polaroid 667

The very fast peel-apart black and white film used for lighting tests.

1 rendering

Fuji FP-3000B

Very fast peel-apart black and white film with striking contrast.

14 renderings

Rollei Retro 80S

A fine-grained film with extended red sensitivity and a hard, graphic tonality.

1 rendering

Ilford Pan F Plus 50

Ilford's slowest film: near-grainless, high contrast, demanding.

1 rendering