…to my post of last sunday!

First I’d like to address a comment from Kris. I did not use the iPhone for the digital shots but a Fuji X-E1 with my Canon FD 28mm lens, making a nice perfect normal 42mm equivalent on the APS-C sensor.

What’s more, the old glass gives a less clinical look to the digital files, less than the near perfect Fujinon lenses.

And then, to get you off the scent a bit, I treated the digital files to a bit of digital grain in Lightroom…. yes I know, Despicable Me, hehehe…

Now the compression the files went through while posting on my blog, both film and digital gives artefacts on both types. And of course, the film photos were scanned so they are essentially digital too. But nonetheless the film character normally shines through.

Anyways, a lot of you got it right! Congratulations, you earned yourselves a virtual… digital… shoulder pat!

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The Lady and her Dog Continue reading Just one Photo….

Can you tell me which one’s which?

Two sets of photos!

One is film, one is digital….

Some difference in tones, sure, but can you tell?

I’m really interested in the results of this little test.

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Nothing like  a nice acronym, don’t you think so?

And anyways, HoToP sounds and looks quite good! But what does it mean?

Well it’s simply the abbreviation for

The Holy Trilogy of Photography

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I call this a BMW Sandwich Continue reading Just one photograph!

OK, I know I said I’d not develop any color film again and here I go and buy another color development kit.

I’s just that I love black and white but some days you got to have some color in your life!

Continue reading “I just can’t get enough!”

…since my last post!

Shucks! Time flies!

Continue reading “OVER ONE WEEK….”

Yes, I’m not yet retired!

Waiting for it, it’s true, but not yet there. Still about 10 years to go… So I’m still going to work each morning.

Continue reading “Going to work…. again”

I’m lucky to have a photo featured on the excellent PHYSICAL GRAIN website! Ray Larose offers the great opportunity to any film photographer to show off a photo with some background information. And while you take a look and perhaps submit one of your photos, stop by his personal website too! Great photography, great cameras and good reads!   Continue reading Featured on ‘Physical Grain’

Yes, this is completely unrelated to the usual subjects on this site, but I just wanted to get something out there. Of course I’m late to the party but then again I don’t think what I have to say is that world-shattering. Continue reading “Ten years of iPhone”

Good news don’t seem to stop this year, so today will be a double feature day!

I just read an announcement for a ‘new’ film from Zorki Photo!

The film is in fact an existing, unnamed 100 ISO emulsion, very nicely repackaged in a gorgeous soviet-retro-style.

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I was out and about with my Leica IIIa with a never before tried film emulsion, Kodak Tmax 400. Heard saying that it was nice stuff with finer grain than my ‘normal’ HP5 or Tri-X and I wanted to test it out.

For the first 20 frames I had my super sharp Industar 50 lens on the camera. It’s by far the sharpest lens I have for my IIIa and would be perfect but for those flares…. It’s a coated version but it flares in direct sunlight.

Continue reading “One more Reason why I prefer Film”