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Lucky C400 Colour-Negative Film Review: Read This to Avoid Immense Disappointment

Lucky C400 is a highly anticipated follow-up to the successful launch of China's first colour-negative film in over a decade. However, this film is neither what it promised to be nor what many would have expected.

Lucky C400 Colour-Negative Film Review: Read This to Avoid Immense Disappointment

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Lucky C400 is a highly anticipated follow-up to the successful launch of China's first colour-negative film in over a decade.

In this in-depth film review, I test several rolls with a variety of development processes (C-41, C-41 stand, ECN-2) and various lens filters to find a technique that fixes the weird yellow, green, and blue...

However, this film is neither what it promised to be nor what many would have expected.

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Lucky C400 is a highly anticipated follow-up to the successful launch of China's first colour-negative film in over a decade. However, this film is neither what it promised to be nor what many would have expected. In this in-depth film review, I test several rolls with a variety of development processes (C-41, C-41 stand, ECN-2) and various lens filters to find a technique that fixes the weird yellow, green, and blue colour casts.

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