Ever since I have owned a 120 film camera, I have only use colour negative film on it. The Acros has been sleeping in my fridge for some times now. Finally, I have taken it to the street one day after work.

I exposed the film just like how I would do on the colour film. However, the result came out generally under exposed. I have no idea whether it’s my mistake on guessing the exposure or that’s just how the black and white film behave. I must say, that day the light wasn’t great. 

Although I shot most of the photos on tripod, the focusing on the Yashica is not easy. I have to dealt with the mirrored viewfinder and at the same time fiddling the angle to make the horizon straight. “Left is right, left is right”, I keep reminding myself.

With the right exposure and focus, I would say the Acros is quite contrasty. This makes the photograph pop. However, most of my shot were under exposed. So, I tried to pull back the detail in post and the outcome wasn’t great. Generally, the photo has a natural orange tint to it. This makes the photo a little bit Japanese feel – as describe by Ming Yao. Some photo you doesn’t see the tint because I have edit it in post.  

Personally, I prefer to use colour film during my shoot. It’s not that B&W not yield great result. I just feel with colour, you get an extra layer of presentation to your photograph. You can make colour photo to black and white, but not the other way around easily.