Lomography LomoChrome Color '92 400

Lomography released LomoChrome Color '92 in July 2023 as 35mm, followed by 120 the next month and 110 later. The name points at 1992, the year Lomography was founded, and the pitch is unambiguous: chunky grain, low contrast, muted color, the look of a one-hour-photo roll pulled out of a drawer ten years late. It is a brand-new emulsion engineered to feel like a survivor. That tension is the whole product.

In practice the film does what it claims. Skin tones land in a pastel pink-warm register that holds up across light, medium, and dark complexions, which is uncommon for a film designed around a vintage look. Blues lean into a soft cyan rather than a true sky blue, reds come through clean but not aggressive, and contrast stays low even in midday sun. Compared with Lomography Metropolis, the other current Lomography color stock, Color '92 has the same grain volume but a friendlier, less industrial palette. Against ORWO NC500 the grain shape is cleaner and the color crossover is less severe.

The grain itself is the loud part. It is noticeably grainier than Portra 400, Ultramax 400, or CineStill 400D at the same speed, and the texture is clearly visible on any 35mm print. This is the point of the stock. If you want clean and modern, this is the wrong film.

Process in standard C-41. Box speed is 400 and works fine, though some photographers rate at 320 to push the shadows up a fraction. Avoid pushing past 800; the grain blooms hard and the muted palette goes muddy rather than nostalgic.

Available in 35mm, 120, and 110, which is rare for any current color emulsion. Lomography also runs a limited Sun-Kissed edition of Color '92, a warmer-rendering emulsion with softer orange and yellow hues, available in 35mm, 120, and 110.

Reciprocity exponent is 1.20. Zone Light Meter applies the correction past one second. A 10-second metered exposure becomes about 16 seconds at the negative. For nighttime street work where the '90s palette plays well against signage and neon, that correction sits inside what Color '92 handles best.