On Harman’s Menu for Lunch Today-Fresh Film for $12.99-All You Can Eat
Mar 9, 2026
David Prochnow
Our resident “how-to” project editor, David Prochnow, lives on the Gulf Coast of the United States in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He brings his expertise at making our photography projects accessible to everyone, from a lengthy stint acting as the Contributing How-To Editor with Popular Science magazine. While you don’t have to actually build each of his projects, reading about these adventures will contribute to your continued overall appreciation of do-it-yourself photography. A collection of David’s best Popular Science projects can be found in the book, “The Big Book of Hacks,” Edited by Doug Cantor.
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As avid DIYP readers will recall, we made the announcement earlier this week that Harman Photo would be releasing a new film stock at “midday” on 5 March. Well, that day is today and the lunchtime menu includes a tasty “Switch-wich.”
The rumor and speculation is over. Now officially released, Harman Switch Azure 125 is this year’s new “experimental” color film. Wrapped in a tastefully subdued blue hued (“azure”) box and cartridge, this emulsion emerges as a canister of fun that’s waiting for artfully capturing those beautiful clear-sky days of summer.
Why “artfully” and not “accurately?” Well, Harman Switch Azure 125 is unlike a typical color negative film with blue, green, and red color sensitivity layers stacked above a film base. Instead, taking a design sheet from the Lomography “wacky” film style book, like the beloved 2021 LomoChrome Turquoise 35mm ISO 100-400 film, Harman Photo has altered the color layer formulation of this new film.
Clear Skies Await the Azure Photographer
Just like their previous experimentation in color sensitivity layer jostling with Harman Red 125 film, Harman Switch Azure 125 features a non-traditional color negative construction. Unlike Harman Red 125’s reversed or backwards emulsion fabrication technique, however, Harman Switch Azure 125 uses an alternative layer stacking assembly process.
According to Harman Photo, this new “sandwich” flips the color sensitivity layers of two of the three colors for turning “the everyday into something strange.” For example, “…ordinary scenes become extraordinary as pink and orange skies meet cyan bananas and blue strawberries.”
The Switch Azure 125 is available now in both 35mm and 120 film formats and priced at $12.99 and $10.99, respectively.
Enjoy.
David Prochnow
Our resident “how-to” project editor, David Prochnow, lives on the Gulf Coast of the United States in Ocean Springs, Mississippi. He brings his expertise at making our photography projects accessible to everyone, from a lengthy stint acting as the Contributing How-To Editor with Popular Science magazine. While you don’t have to actually build each of his projects, reading about these adventures will contribute to your continued overall appreciation of do-it-yourself photography. A collection of David’s best Popular Science projects can be found in the book, “The Big Book of Hacks,” Edited by Doug Cantor.
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