This trip to New York City was my first time there in about 15 years. I have always admired several photographers who were known for capturing New York street photography. Some of my favorites are Joel Meyerowitz, Vivian Maier, Jill Freeman, Gordon Parks, and Saul Leiter. My work isn’t anywhere close to their incredible street […]
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5 Frames… Of ILFORD FP4 PLUS with my new Contax clone (35mm format / EI 100 / Kiev-4a + Jupiter 8M 50mm f/2) – by John Tarrant
I am a long-term Leica user, but have always admired the Contax aesthetic and Contax users were usually as enthusiastic about the Zeiss product as Leica users were about the Leitz products. So I recently took the opportunity to acquire fairly elderly Kiev-4a camera and prepared to enjoy the Contax experience. The Kiev-4a is sometimes […]
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5 Frames… At Westonbirt Arboretum on ILFORD Delta 100 Professional Rolleicord Va + Xenar 75mm f/3.5
Rolleicord Va is a medium format (6×6) camera using 120 size films, with which you will get 12 frames per roll. It is a Twin-Lens Reflex (TLR) camera and has a Xenar 75mm f/3.5 as the taking lens and a 75mm f/3.2 as the viewing lens. My Rolleicord Va is a version 2, according to […]
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5 Frames… Of cold-weather testing airships by the arctic circle on Kodak Portra 160 (35mm Format / EI 160 / Contax G1 + Planar 45mm f/2) – by Igor Immfun
At the time I shot these frames, I had owned the Contax G1 for a little less than two months. It was my first film camera and I fell in love with her immediately. You just want to hold it in your hands and enjoy the genius of the people who created it. I won’t […]
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5 Frames… Of Charleston on Kodak EKTACHROME Infrared film (35mm format / EI 400 / Canon EOS 3 + Canon 17-40 f/4) – by Daniel Kompass
I’ve been shooting film for over 45 years having shot my first roll of infrared film back in the 80’s. This type of film and others are getting impossible to find these days, recently saw a roll of Infrared for sale for $300 on eBay. I have been saving a couple rolls in my fridge […]
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5 Frames… Around Blois on LomoChrome Purple XR 100-400 (35mm format / EI 200 / Yashica FX – 3 + Yashica Lens ML 50mm f/2) – by Steven Munday
To Describe the Town of Blois, I would begin with the picturesque gardens, the venerable buildings woven together with cobbled streets. Cemented in the history of France, Blois is a stunning destination for anyone with a love for culture, situated in the centre de Loire region and 2 hours south of Paris. Now, I had […]
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5 Frames… Over 3 years on Kodak Portra 400, starting in New Orleans and finishing at Venice Beach (35mm format / EI 400 / Pentax Spotmatic + Super Takumar 50mm f/1.4)
Film is time travel. By the time I got this roll of Kodak Portra 400 developed and scanned, it had been sitting in my Pentax Spotmatic for three years, waiting to be developed. I shot the first half of the roll while it was still fresh, according to the date on the box, and the […]
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5 Frames… Of Strasbourg on ILFORD Delta 400 Professional with the “wrong” developer (35mm format / EI 1600 / Rollei 35TE + Tessar f3.5/40mm) – by Olaf
I met up with my friend Erik in late November 2019 near the Christmas market in Strasbourg. However, the Christmas market was not our main destination, no, it was the city of Strasbourg itself. Strasbourg is a beautiful city that has a lot to offer besides its world-famous cathedral. I wanted to and did photograph […]
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5 Frames… In Covington, Tennessee, with expired Kodak T400CN (35mm / EI 400 / Minolta X-370 + Minolta MD 50mm f/1.4) – by Jon Woodhams
“It’s a pretty little town, isn’t it?” the man in the pickup truck asked, nodding at the camera in my hand. He’d seen me shooting pictures and stopped to chat. I smiled and agreed with him — Covington is a pretty little town, particularly the quaint town square that wraps around the Tipton County Courthouse. […]
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5 Frames… Of Dublin’s St Patrick’s Day on Adox Color Mission 200 (35mm Format / EI 200 / Leica M6 + Voigtlander 35mm f/2.5 Color Skopar) – by Valentine de Villemeur
When Adox photo released their new film Color Mission, I knew I had to test it out. I purchased two rolls and received them just in time for St. Patrick’s Day in Dublin! I arrived early to find a good spot because my goal was to have enough crowd around me to capture the people […]
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5 Frames… Of panoramas in Grenoble on Kodak Panchromatic Separation Film 2238 (35mm Format / EI 12 / Horizon Perfekt + OF-28p 28mm f/2.8 MC lens) – by Alfonso Carpio Rovira
This past Easter I planned a trip to Grenoble, a good opportunity to take landscape shots of the French Alps. At the same time, I was been keen to try out an attractive low ISO film that I received in the last Secret Santa (thanks EM); a roll of Kodak Panchromatic Separation Film 2238, a panchromatic […]
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6 Frames… Of macro-ish photos on ADOX COLOR MISSION 200 and a Nikkor OC 35mm + macro tube (EI 200 / 35mm Format / Nikon F)
I’m happy to have been able to shoot a roll of ADOX’s COLOR MISSION 200! I know rolls of this are hard to come by, and I really hope they release more of it soon. From what I understand this is a completely new color film that was resurrected by ADOX from a past R&D project. […]
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5 Frames… Of visible and present grain on ILFORD HP5 PLUS + FX-37 (35mm format / EI 400 Nikon F2 + DE-1 + Nikon Nikkor 35mm f/2.8 AI) – by Emilio Romero
To begin with, it is always difficult to refer to a particular combination of camera, developer, and film that one is not used to using regularly, but I think for sure that this one is certainly worth taking a look at; the developer FX-37 in combination with ILFORD HP5 PLUS. Certainly, and as I imagine […]
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5 Frames… With a Lumenbox lens and Rollei Retro 400S (35mm format / EI 400 / Voigtlander Bessa L)
I think that I first stumbled upon Jorge Otero’s wonderful little Lumenbox on Etsy when I was searching for pinhole cameras. The Lumenbox is very much not a pinhole camera. It uses a simple meniscus lens to achieve a wonderful swirly distortion that I was immediately entranced with. 5 Frames… With a Lumenbox lens and […]
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5 Frames… Of Kodak Tri-X 400 35mm and a Lomo LC-A (35mm Format / EI 400 / Lomo Minitar 1 32mm f/2.8)
Until late March this year (last week at the time of writing), I hadn’t shot a roll of film in more than 10 years, since around the time Kodak discontinued Plus-X. I recently discovered that a great independent lab (Boutique Film Lab) opened up in my hometown of Nashville, TN, a few years ago and […]
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5 Frames… At the farm on ILFORD HP5 PLUS and Voigtlander ULTRON SL II 40mm F/2 (35mm format / EI 400 / Nikon FM3A) – by Michael
I was recently in a farming community outside Columbia, Missouri, where my in-laws have a wonderful farm. It’s where my wife, my daughter, and I go to get away from the city and relax. My mother-in-law had just returned from a cattle auction the week before and she brought several new cows home with her. […]
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5 Frames… Of Kodak Portra 400 on a Kodak M35 plastic camera – by Kerry Constantino
The reputation of Kodak Portra 400 precedes itself. Warm, forgiving, with a soft grain that shows up velvety. The colors that Portra highlights well are warm ones; reds, ambers, earthy browns, mossy greens, and turquoise. Skin tones are true and highlights can sometimes appear just a touch golden. It’s one of my favorite films, and […]
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5 Frames… At St Athan Boys’ Village on Cinestill 800T / Canon A-1 + Canon FDn 50mm f/1.8
On August 8th 1925, Boys’ Village opened up near St. Athan, South Wales. It was a holiday camp designed to provide some much-needed relief for Welsh miners from the intensity of work in the coal mines, and was essentially a small village with it’s own swimming pool, gymnasium, and cricket pitch. The list of facilities […]
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5 Orthochromatic Frames… Of Washi A (35mm format / El 50 / Minolta SR-T 303b + MD F1.7/50mm)
What I hesitated for a long time. No, I don’t need this camera. Why should I? I have a Minolta X-300 and I’m very happy with it, so why should I get an SR-T 101 or 303? Damn, it’s fully mechanical and except for a light meter, doesn’t need any power. All right, in no […]
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5 Frames of my lockdown on Classic EZ 400 film, a Voigtländer Bessa-R and Nikon FM2 (Skopar 35mm f/2.5 and Voigtländer Ultron 40mm f/2 lenses)
Being on voluntary lockdown on COVID leads to boredom, but it also lead me to explore my vast collection of photography books which I began to draw inspiration from for a little project. I love portrait work especially informal and street portraits. I began this little project two years ago at the start of the […]
