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Ciao Botta
Everything is allright?
To answer to your questions no,those are not real cigarettes and i onestly can say that i don't know either what half of those boxes contain and probably will never find out,at least untill next time in Tokyo because the boxes are too nice to eat what's inside.

About films......mmmm
we could talk for hours here,i spent the first three years when i was learning photography to play and experiment with films and processing,i did the black and white at home and i miss it.
Now i found out the film for me and i always use the same one Kodak Porta 160VC (a color negative film).
All the pictures i posted are shot with that film and a Mamiya RZ670.

If you would like to play around i would suggest the:

KODAK EKTACHROME P1600 EPH this is a slide that needs two stops of push processing and can give you very high contrast and great colrs,and the possibility to shoot in subdued light.
Keep in mind that this is actually a 400 iso so that when you process it,i would reccomend a pro lab,tell them to
push it 2 stops.

KODAK EKTACHROME INFRARED EIR this is an infrared slide film that works better with a red filter and shoul be loaded and unloaded in complete dark.
Try it and look the amazing colors you can have.

KODAK EKTACHROME 160T EPT this is a slide film too used to shoot in artificial light,try it in natural light to have more contrast and a cyan dominant.

For BLACK and WHITE i would suggest the:

FUJI NEOPAN 1600 and the FUJI DELTA 3200,this one is much better than the Kodak T-Max 3200 (less grain and contrast and more sharpness).
Then my favorite one that they don't do anymore,at least here in Italy is the KODAK TECHNICAL PAN,this is a negative b/w film without iso setting that you should set at 25 iso for better results and is unbelievably sharp and almost without any grain.

AS for what i use i always stick to the same one because i know exactly what i can do and tthey are:
KODAK PORTRA 160VC for color and
KODAK TRI-X 320or 400 for b/w.

When i'm in Japan and i feel like playing around i use Polaroids 'cause they are cheaper there and i can find many that i can't find here but that's another story that i'll tell you another time because i'm sick of pushing on these buttons here.

HAVE FUN and remember that the film doesn't do a good photographer...........ahahahahahahah but i think you already know this:

Ciao ciao