After my initial whirlwind test of the Diana Mini, I wanted to slow down a bit, so I popped in a roll of Labeauratoire-rolled Kodak Hawkeye 400 and went at it a bit more slowly this time. 37 half frame shots, from a 20 exposure roll: not bad!
They are half frame, so there’s something a bit less about them than the full 35mm frames—I’ll get into that below—but I’m not sure I can really put my finger on what it is. 
First a little background… Continue reading “Kodak Hawkeye, Half Frame”
Back in October, Alec Soth launched a Kickstarter to provide some funding for his Winnebago Workshops series of trips around the country to provide free workshops to young artists. One of the rewards was this book, Nineteen Teens, and after some hesitation, I jumped on it.
Continue reading “Alec Soth – ‘Nineteen Teens’”Thanks to my darling, adorable wife and my awesome Mom, when my birthday arrived, everything on my wish list had arrived and was sitting in boxes next to the door. One of the boxes held a couple of fun new toys from Lomography: the Diana Mini, and the LC-A Instant Back!
More about the instant back later: today, it’s all about the Mini! Continue reading “Enter the Diana Mini”
After my disappointment with the HD 400, I decided to shoot through as much of it as possible, as fast as possible.
To that end, I loaded a roll into the FG and just shot around at random. It still took awhile, too long, really, and at about frame 18, the meter locked up again.* I pulled the film out and finished it off in the FE (but forgot that the FE was set on ISO 50 from the fun I had with [not yet mentioned, soon though, maybe] so the last 6 or 7 shots were wildly overexposed (3 stops) and all shot from the window of the car while waiting at stoplights… waste indeed).
Back around the time I picked up the Kodak HD 400, I snagged a 5 roll pack of recently expired Kodak Pro Image 100…
In short, despite the dramatic convex curl to the negatives, this is some of the best film I’ve used: great color, great skin tones, very low grain, just an absolute pleasure, and I’m very tempted to snag a decent quantity more and put it in the freezer for a project or something. It’s really that good.* Continue reading “Enter the Kodak Pro Image 100”
After my initial disappointment with the graininess I found in that first roll of HD 400, I decided to try to shoot through the rest of it as fast as possible, so when Hana and I decided to take a trip to the Dallas Arboretum, I grabbed a roll to refill the FG in case I ended up shooting through the first roll of Compania Imago-rolled Rollei CN 200 that I mentioned earlier this week.
At first glance, I thought it turned out less grainy than my first roll, but looking again now, I think the subjects just disguised the grain some.
Continue reading “At the Arboretum with some HD 400”
On day two of our excursions during Spring Break, Hana and I went to the Dallas Arboretum to catch the Spring blooms. Once again, the weather was lovely, and we had a nice time walking around and admiring the flowers and trees.
Continue reading “At the Arboretum with Compania Imago’s Rollei CN 200”
