…and no, this is not about the use of these two film types. This is rather about how I process the negatives. More precisely about the difference of said processing.

As you might know, despite a nice and promising test with bathroom-turned-darkroom-printing some months back, time and space force me to rely on scanning my negatives. I would have loved to push with wet printing on and refine my technique (or try to even work out a technique in a first time) but it is simply not doable.

So it was back to scanning. A little less time consuming as darkroom work and much easier on the other people of my household who can use the bathroom as needed.

Continue reading “Color or Black & White Processing”

Yes, one more cheer for good old Kodak!

They bring back T-max 3200.

Continue reading “He’s Back!”

While I’m working on a longish post detailing my processing I just wanted to ramble on a bit about my perception of Winter’s Colors.

Continue reading “Winter’s Colors”

My last post got some nice comments, and one of them, by ronian42 reminded me that winter is also the moment of nice, bright, low sunlight, lending structure and definition to any mundane objects.

How very true!

Continue reading “The Bright Side of Winter”

Seems that at last this wet and sloppy winter is starting to go away.

Of course it will try to show that it’s still with us for some time, but it’s certainly on the way out.

Continue reading “Winter is Fading…”

So some of you wanted me to make more snow photos in the comments to this post…

Of course I will comply. I will do anything for you… within limits. And the limits were quite surpassed this morning.

Continue reading “Cold and Dark”

Snowfall, the whole day

Winter at last

Cold and grey

All quiet Continue reading “Winter – Silence”

Yes, this is again about one of my three remaining cameras. About the smallest of them and the one I took most of my preferred photos with.

The glorious Olympus XA2

Of course I could go on about it’s great, sharp lens. About it’s very accurate exposure system.

Continue reading “About a Camera… again!”