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From the lab

Field guide

Notes from the lab on film looks, our own stocks, and what happens to a roll after you send it. Every entry ends with something you can load.

Style guide

What a look is called, where it came from, and how to get it here.

An empty beach under low sun with one concrete block throwing a long shadow across rippled sand, the sand held at a warm cream by the film while the sea and the sky above it stay plainly blue.

Style guide · 9 Sept 2026

The warm consumer colour negative look

What the supermarket box of colour film does to yellow, red and blue, why it reads as memory, and the light it needs to work on a phone.

A woman in a red leather jacket against a deep blue wall, holding a paper photo strip out towards the camera. Her shadow is thrown up and to the left, close and hard edged. Mira 400.

Style guide · 8 Sept 2026

What is the 90s point and shoot flash look

A bright subject, a background that falls away, and a hard shadow on the wall behind. Where the look came from and how to shoot it here.

A profile against a pale wall: rust red cardigan, black trousers, looking left. The shadow behind her is soft and barely darker than the wall. Mira 400.

Style guide · 8 Sept 2026

Pastel portrait film: the look, and how to get it on your phone

Low contrast, light shadows, colour that never shouts. The light that makes a pastel portrait, the film that holds it, and what ruins it.

A pale studio wall, a blue cap, hands up beside the face. The hard shadow behind her is what a light sitting next to the lens does. Mira 400.

Style guide · 8 Sept 2026

The disposable camera look, explained

Hard flash, warm colour, soft corners and framing nobody checked. What the look is made of, and how to get it on a roll here.

Stock notes

What each film does to skin, sky and night.

A white 90s hatchback parked by a lake with a snow topped cone behind it, autumn trees on the far shore, someone in a red jacket leaning on the front wing. Verdi 400.

Stock notes · 8 Sept 2026

Verdi 400 · stock notes

Greens, blues and cold daylight. What Verdi 400 does with foliage, wet tarmac, a pale sky and the last light of the day.

A close portrait against a deep blue wall, red leather jacket, holding a paper photo strip beside her face. Skin stays warm and even against a very saturated background.

Stock notes · 8 Sept 2026

Mira 400 · stock notes

What Mira 400 does to skin, to a coloured wall, to grass and to hard sun, read off one public roll of fifteen frames.

Lab notes

How the lab works, and how a stock is made.

A small fishing boat crossing flat water at sunset, the sky running from yellow at the horizon up to blue. A long smooth gradient is where a colour table shows its work. Aurra 200.

Lab notes · 8 Sept 2026

What a film stock is, when it is a 3D LUT

A house film is a set of rules we wrote. A community stock is a .cube file, a speed, a grain and four dials. What each of those does to a frame.

Rolls

Rolls that came back, and what is in them.

The same cover laid out wide rather than tall. DROPROLL at the top left, SHOOT NOW. SEE LATER. filling the left two thirds, the red jacket portrait standing in a tall frame on the right, and the mono line under a rule at the foot.

Rolls · 10 Sept 2026

Two rolls, ten stills · how the album was made

Ten pictures composed out of two developed rolls and the site's own type and colour. What each still is doing, and which frame is inside it.

RSS · New entries most weeks.