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Not really sure what's going on there then 🤷
It basically doesn't matter whether you're shooting in the forest or on the coast, or indoors - the camera should just use an appropriate shutter speed and expose the frame correctly.. and it probably did, alas the whole roll is too dark while you say the roll of Ultra Max is fine, so my guess is there's been something wrong with the Lomo film.
If film has been stored badly (as in: too long / in too warm a place / on a sunny shelf etc.) that might cause problems, although usually the colours just get a bit dull and there's loss of contrast.. still that would be my best guess as well as to where things went wrong here, apart from some manufacturing defect.
Can't really speak to the Lomo films in general as I've never shot any but I actually looked at examples of the Metropolis one on the lomography website yesterday, and while some shots look really cool there's also quite a few dodgy results.
To me it's very much in the "experimental film" category.If I were you I'd get a fresh roll of "proper" film from a decent store next, and see how that goes.
Try some Portra 160 if it's going to be a good weather situation again.
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@RonnieOatmilk Yes, the XA does have it too but it's very hard to accidentally change it.
@nankatsu Yeah, that's the look I expected to get from it based on the sample photos on their website.
@salad I definitely did not set it to 800. I might have set it to 400 instead of 200 which should still be in the range they advertise but maybe too high then for in the forest. Should have been fine on the coast in the sun I guess?
My last guess is that I picked this film up in the MoMA gift shop in New York. It was the cheapest film I was able to find that day. Maybe it wasn't adequately stored?
I am now just wondering if I should just steer away from Lomography films if shooting on something like Kodak Gold is so effortlessly good (I am mostly a good weather photographer).