Kyoto 2 - Marix 800T

Japan’s CineStill alternative (Marix). Kodak respool, less halation, great grain. Phone booths, Philosopher’s Path, cherry blossom, bamboo forest, taxis and their cute rearview mirrors.

Right after leaving the shrine, I changed films and experimented the “Japanese’s CineStill 800”, also know as Marix 800T. This film is the Japanese alternative to the CineStill brand, priced quite equally, with kinda the same quality.

Equally grainy, but interestingly, it doesn’t come with lots of the halation present on the CineStill 800T. I actually enjoyed shooting it. The DX code on these Marix films didn’t work on my M7, so I had to manually override.

Every time I saw a phone booth, I asked my son to go there and I took a picture of it. I will print a zine later on just with these! It’s always a good idea to do these kind of things when travelling. I did the same with these convex mirrors on the street.

Marix 800T is also a respool from Kodak something, identified by the words “EASTMAN” on the film lettering, which also come with some crazy characters.

All these shots were around 6AM, and this was the second location we visited at the day (jetlag gotta be useful for something). We visited a very calm street/location called Philosopher's Path 哲学の道, there was cherry blossom everywhere and some people doing tai chi chuan, the scene was simply majestic.

Then we got in a cab to go somewhere else, but I couldn’t resist this…

Japan is so adorable!

Our destination was Arashiyama Bamboo Forest 嵐山竹林の小径, which if you think it was swarmed with tourists, you got it right. It was already 8:40AM. Maybe we should had skipped breakfast to get the place not crowded, but then I would sacrifice my family’s well being for photos — a dillema that every photographer passes through when traveling with the fam.

When I left, I took a sequence of 7 photos with some very cool colors and scenery. Marix 800T didnt’ dissapoint, which is expected from something photography-related made in Japan.

My wife than planned our next destination, we were headed to Shincho.

Taxi cabs in Japan have this cute little convex rearview mirror at the hood. It’s adorable and extremely useful in tight streets, there’s a lot of these in there!