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I’ve decided that 2025 is my “Year of of the TLR” and I’m hoping to spend the time improving my skills with my Yashica-Mat. This lines up nicely with the five pack of Cinestill XX 120 that I bought and have been working with. For this roll I could finally…
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I bought a five pack of Cinestill’s version of Kodak XX in 120 format (still available on sale as of this typing) and decided to use it to test out a bottle of 510 Pyro developer that I bought from CatLabs. I love Catlabs 320 and they recommend 510-Pyro for…
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I have not been shooting a ton over the past few months. Instead I’ve been spending my photography time in the darkroom, working on prints to give away this holiday season. That work has been very rewarding, but I wanted to create some new negatives so I finished shooting a…
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My usual workflow for photos has been: But as I’ve started to spend more time with those negatives in the darkroom I’ve noticed something. The prints I make are very different from the scanned negative. Here’s a recent negative: It’s nice enough. But when I followed my normal process for…
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I’ve taken a lot of indoor photos with my macro lens, but I’ve never thought of it as my everyday walking-around lens. And I’m not sure why. It may not be as nice or fast as my ‘normal’ 50mm lens, but it’s still a 50mm lens. And it comes with…
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While my first experience with P30 did not go great, I viewed that as a problem with the photographer and not the film. I was not deterred from trying Ferrania’s new (or recreation of an old) film stock, P33. Side note to film companies, is it so hard to put…
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My third roll of the trip was Ferrania P30, a stock I had not used before. As I keep reminding myself, before shooting a new stock do some basic research on how best to use it. I did not remember to do that this time!
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My second roll of the trip was Kodak XX, the Film Photography Project version. Metered at their suggested 200 ISO and developed in Rodinal (1:60 for 7:00). Which is a first for me. I’ve shot XX before, but have always used the recommended D96 developer.
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In February I took a short trip to Guadalajara, Mexico. And, naturally, I brought a camera and a bunch of film. Unlike last year’s trip to Bogotá, I brought no color film. Guadalajara is very sunny. As a result it has a built environment that provides a lot of shade.…
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I’ve never used a twin-lens reflex (TLR) camera. I know a lot of people really like them, but they haven’t been a part of my life. But I’ve been curious. 6×6 negatives with a huge focusing viewfinder? What’s not to like? The approach of significant round-number birthday led me to…
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I recently grabbed some rolls of Svema 200 and 100, stocks that are new to me. The 200 made its way in to my Spotmatic and was my first roll of 2024. I kept the camera out of the sun while loading and unloading, so I didn’t suffer from the…
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Although our winter this year was very mild the daylight hours were still very short. Global warming and El Niño don’t change the tilt of the earth, after all. As a result I found it hard to get outside and shoot many photos. I did find myself taking a lot…
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As I talked about in Scanner Learnings my approach to scanning changed in the middle of 2023. Which made me think about the rolls of film that I had scanned ‘badly’ early in the year. I decided to rescan some of these to see if there was a huge difference.…
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Some more photos from my recent roll of Catlabs Pro 320. A lot of my photography this winter has focused on this small orchid plant in my back room, shot mostly with the SMC 50/f4 Macro lens. With this roll I started experimenting more with backlit photos and using shadows…
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My final roll of 2023, loaded on the 31st of December, was a return of CatLabs 320. And just as I did with my first roll of CatLabs, I captured a few fetching dog portraits. Both of these use the SMC 50mm/f4 macro lens, which offers a lot of good…
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A slightly shorter post this week as I recover from being sick. Going the opposite way from my experiments in pushing hp5, I pulled this roll by metering and developing it at 200. The HP5 article I mentioned earlier didn’t talk much about pulling so I didn’t really know what…
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Over the winter I’ve been taking a lot of photos of an orchid plant in my back room. Whenever the winter light emerges from our frequently-grey skies I’ll try to take a shot or two. One afternoon in mid-December a thin beam of light snuck through a mostly-closed curtain and…
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I shot a lot of Ilford HP5 in 2023. About a dozen rolls of it. And I still have a lot of it in my fridge. My goal in using a stock so frequently is to become familiar with it, and to find a way of shooting and developing it…
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New photos will be up next week, but for now let’s keep revisiting the year that was. People love those year end wrap ups like Spotify Wrapped or whatever. So, how did my year in film look? Films I’m still shooting a ton of HP5, but my plan is to…
