FUJI FILM fortia 50 – Shige's hobby

Fujichrome fortia” is a color reversal film with the catchphrase “ultra-high chroma and ultra-sharp colors” that was introduced by Fujifilm in 2004.
Information on this film is no longer available on the Fujifilm website, but can be found on the pages of online media and photography enthusiasts at the time of its release.
At the time, each piece of reversal film was available for about 1,000 yen, so I bought a box of five pieces and took pictures with them, being struck by the word “limited edition.
The film’s claim to be more saturated than Velvia 50 was no exaggeration, and the colors were so intense that they were said to be false colors, making it one of the most memorable films I have ever used.
The photo shown in the gallery was taken at Korakuen Garden in Koishikawa, just around the time of autumn leaves in Tokyo.
The red is a fiery vermilion, and the blue and green are also highly saturated colors. The blacks fall smoothly and smoothly without persistence, which is probably due in part to the lens effect, creating dramatic landscapes.
This film ended up being a limited edition product that never became a standard item, but it was a valuable experience for me to be able to play with film at a time when products like this were being introduced to the market.
The camera was the KONICA HEXAR-RF and the lens was the KONICA KL-HEXANON 60mm, a bright lens that was a good combination for using this film at ISO 50. Even when the sun was shading and the amount of light was low, I was able to maintain a sufficient shutter speed. As expected, the shutter speed slowed down in the shade, and some pictures were shaky.