It was a good, nay perhaps even Great film back in the day…That day being where one of the three E-6 labs in a mid-sized city had a line at the counter on a Tuesday morning. Each of the annoyed customers that forming that line tapping their Very Important Feet had between 20 and 200 rolls they dropped off YESTERDAY after last weeks shoot….In that day it was pretty Butt-Saving to at least a few of those shooters to have a solid E-6 emulsion that had a flexible Exposure Index and a color palette that mostly matched the slower versions of what Fuji offered at the time. Yep, saved a few butts back in the day. The grain was pretty good, although nobody expected miracles at EI 1600+. What this film did need was a dedicated tech who could get the best from it and keep a nice tidy clean lab. Those above shooters (stock, ad, editorial) learned about this film from the sports guys, who absolutely could find a use for another stop or two of shutter speed, especially with those ultra-fast shutters Nikon and Canon had recently introduced. 1/500 at 5.6 at a tennis match? Yeah, you can do it, but shooting at 400 and getting 1/2000 at the same f-stop would up the percentage in instant oriented sports coverage. If you could get to 2.8 all the better, correctly exposed in bright light the grain penalty at 400 was hardly objectionable, at least to the photo editors who had suffered thru the recent era of pushed Kodachrome 200.

I cannot recall the name of the above model. It was part of a Pualani bikini photo shoot, and I did a test of a whole bunch of then current film emulsions, and I threw a roll of Fujichrome MS 100-1000 into the mix. I’m pretty sure this was shot at 200 so one stop push. Shot with a Rollei 6008i with a Carl Zeiss Planar80mm f/2.8 lens. My scanner is showing a slight amount of flare, the internal glass of one surface needs a bit of a clean apparently.