Analog film photography has been surging in popularity among Korean millennials and Gen Z as a reaction against digital perfection culture, and posts featuring rare film stocks like AEROCOLOR IV with DIY development always generate buzz in niche communities. The combination of Busan scenery, medium format gear, and home ECN-2 processing is a flex that the film camera community deeply appreciates.
A film photography enthusiast just dropped a gorgeous set of 26 shots taken around Busan, and the Korean film camera community is losing it over the gear choices and DIY darkroom work involved. The photographer used two different film formats: a Rolleicord VB medium format twin-lens reflex camera loaded with AEROCOLOR IV — a rare, discontinued Kodak film stock originally designed for aerial photography that's become a cult favorite among film nerds for its dreamy, muted color palette — and a compact 35mm Bessa R4M rangefinder paired with three different Voigtländer lenses (Ultron 28mm f/2, ColorSkopar 21mm f/3.5, and Nokton 40mm f/1.4). What makes this post extra impressive is that all the film was home-developed: the standard rolls in C-41 chemistry and the AEROCOLOR IV in ECN-2, the process normally used for Hollywood motion picture film. DIY ECN-2 development is notoriously tricky because the film has a special anti-halation backing that needs to be removed before processing — most people just send it to a lab. The photographer casually noted they skipped dust removal during scanning, which is very on-brand for the 'I do this for the love of it, not perfection' film community. The title references 고봉밥 (gobong-bap) — a heaping, overflowing bowl of rice — as a playful way of saying this post is an overflowing serving of film goodness from Busan.