Chasing neon: my boston gas station pilgrimage

A love relationship between a specific scene, and a nightstar film stock.

There's something magical that happens when you load CineStill 800T into your camera and point it at a gas station after dark. CineStill 800T is essentially Kodak Vision3 500T motion picture film, repackaged for still photography, with the difference of having the protective remjet backing removed.

This turns this specific film stock into a machine capab…