The City Of Light, in the Sun.

Shooting the City of Light on Fuji Superia X-TRA 400 & Fuji Superia 200

In the summer of 2020, I took a bunch of photos around Paris. Using my Nikon FM2n and the 35mm film stocks Fuji Superia X-TRA 400 and Fuji Superia 200, I would wander around the city and look for moments to memorialise.

After going through the rolls, I waited until I’d returned to New Zealand in March 2021 before I got them developed. The result is that when I finally saw the final scans, I had completely forgotten what I had shot.

It’s always fun when you get your photos back from the camera store. Photos that you had forgotten you had taken suddenly announce themselves on screen.

If memory serves, the images that appear with overblown blue hues were shot on Superia 200, and the ones with a cooler colour palette were the product of X-TRA 400. I don’t know why Superia 200 images are so blue. Could it be a scanning issue? Does the film stock have a strong blue…