Film Photography
A few weeks ago I thought I’d try a different black and white negative film. I’m slowly working my way through different ones trying to decide what works best for me. I bought four rolls of Fomapan 200, a film made in Czechia which has a good reputation in the analogue world. It also has […]
Well, almost: one’s a 55mm. I recently acquired a vintage lens I have long coveted – the Asahi Pentax Super-Takumar 55mm 1.8. This means I am now the proud owner of a collection of 1960s-1980s 50mm lenses from what I consider the five leading consumer SLR brands of the 1970s, namely : Minolta, Olympus, Canon, […]
So, my love affair with film continues. This time it took 9 months to go through a 23 frame roll of Ilford FP4 Plus and by the time I came to develop it, I was a bit out of practice. This led to me adding the stop bath before tipping out the developer and breaking […]
So, in the last post we looked at the lead-up to the results of exposing 5 rolls of black and white film on 5 different SLRs.I had never developed film on my own before. I had briefly dabbled with printing when I was at school – that was 50 years ago! I decided to get […]
We used to call it just ‘film’ but now it’s ‘analogue’ as opposed to ‘digital’ just like music once came from vinyl or tape and then migrated to CD. And just like vinyl aficionados like the reassuring feel of a record and the way the light plays on its minute ridges, just as they like […]