Initial thoughts: a seeming random assortment of street-type photographs in black & white. If there’s a narrative structure to the book, I missed it in the four or so minutes I flipped through the book during the unboxing. The contrast and grit are fairly high, but muted a bit by the paper and stock and printing. I’ve seen much contrastier and grittier.
Continue reading “Unboxing Christian Reister’s ‘Alle Katzen Grau’”Harmon films – Kentmere 400 (2), this time at 1600…
Yep. I pushed Kentmere 400 to 1600 and developed it and lived to tell the tale.
Truth is, there’s not much to tell… Continue reading “Harmon films – Kentmere 400 (2), this time at 1600…”
Lunch with the LC-A
In a desperate attempt to finish off the roll of Fuji Superia XTRA 400 that had been wound up in it for almost a month, and because I quite enjoy shooting with it, I took the LC-A along on one of my #lunchbreak photowalks last week. I muddied my shoes up a good bit and had a great time, then went back to work.
Alhamdulillah. Continue reading “Lunch with the LC-A”
Return of the Espio: a brief review
When I first wrote about the Pentax Espio, I mentioned “unpromising results,” kvetched a bit about Walgreens mailing off and then keeping my negatives, and then promised to write up a proper review once I put another roll through. Well, I did put another roll through it, a year ago, back when I first started developing my own film, but then never got around to (or forgot all about) writing up a review.
After that second roll, I shelved the Espio in favor of the LC-A and, later, the FG, but when I decided to start up a roll Thanksgiving morning, both of those cameras had film in them already, so I grabbed the Espio, loaded the CR 123A battery that I had pulled out of the camera back when I shelved it to keep the date counter from draining it unnecessarily, auto-loaded a roll of film in it,* and away I went, excited to have a zoom lens with even a small range, on an automatic exposure camera with “Full Macro” stamped on the front, and also excited to see how it would perform.
How did it do? Read on to find out… Continue reading “Return of the Espio: a brief review”
Expensive Snapshots, pt. 2: an expensive mistake
This is actually the first 4×5 snapshot I snapped, the piece of film I burned that day, but it wasn’t the first time I’ve made this same mistake…
So a reminder to me first, again, again, again: when you are itching to shoot and the handiest thing around is a 4×5 holder that someone else loaded probably 10 years ago, and you go off to just shoot, do yourself a favor and check your settings first…
In fact, even if you’re shooting digital and only have battery life and shutter actuations to worry about, even if just pulling out your phone to take a quick shot: please, please, please check your settings first. It’ll only take a second or two, and it’ll save you much chagrin later. Continue reading “Expensive Snapshots, pt. 2: an expensive mistake”
Expensive Snapshots, pt. 1b: Capture One Pro 9 review
So I modified my process for processing images and thought I hit upon some great new secret, but it was just me mis-remembering what I had done. I realized my error and began to rewrite the previous post when I remembered an email announcement I received about the new Capture One Pro 9 update, so I dropped the bucks to upgrade and decided to give it another try. Continue reading “Expensive Snapshots, pt. 1b: Capture One Pro 9 review”
Expensive Snapshots, pt. 1a: New Workflow
Snapshots with a 4×5 view camera?
Snapshots that require a light meter? a cable release? bulb mode?
Probably doesn’t meet the usual definition, but the process I underwent with the two sheets of expired FP4 that my dad loaded into a film holder many years ago (probably before the film expired, which it did in 2007 according to the label on the box) and that I shot over the long Thanksgiving weekend. Continue reading “Expensive Snapshots, pt. 1a: New Workflow”
