These 5 Frames tell the story of how a budget black and white film, an accidental ISO reading, and a last-minute trip to the NE Coast of Ireland turned out to be the perfect storm.
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5 Frames… Of night and day at EI 6400 with Kodak T-Max P 3200 and an Edixa-MAT Reflex (35mm format / EI 6400 / Pancolar 50mm f/1.8 and Tessar 50mm f/2.8, 50mm)
During a visit in November 2020, my friend Erik gave me a camera on unlimited loan: an Edixa-MAT Reflex, Model C, built around 1960. At the time of…
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5 Frames… Of Boston on Fujifilm Superia X-TRA 400 with a Leica R8 (35mm / EI 400 / + Summicron-R 50mm f/2)
My first memories of childhood begin with my father’s Leica R4 and since then, cameras and I have been inseparable. So much so that I rarely leave my house without my camera and at work, I develop new forms of cameras, imaging systems and algorithms. I grew up in a small city called Dehradun (in […]
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5 Frames… Of Dundee on Fomapan 100 Classic and a Zeiss Ikon Contina LK (35mm / EI 100)
The woman with the mobile phone must think I’m creepy. Or possibly daft. Perhaps both. She is sat on a bench in the sunshine, having a chat with a friend, and I am stalking around the arches of the building with a camera as old as I am. Precisely, as old as I am, in […]
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5 Frames… Of CineStill 800T (35mm Format / EI 800 / Nikon F3 + Nikon Zoom-Nikkor 35-70mm f/2.8 AF-D)
There’s a big difference between capturing someone as they are and modeling someone to appear as they are. Does that make sense? One of my friends I was photographing said something that caught my attention during our first time making portraits. She said that last time she was photographed the pictures came out feeling fake. […]
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5 Frames… Around West Palm Beach’s downtown on ILFORD DELTA 100 Professional (120 Format / EI 100 / Yashica Mat-124G)
I love my Yashica Mat-124G not only because it was my first medium format camera but because there is something special in the photos that it produces. Despite the square format and the short learning curve the TLR requires, it is my favorite medium format camera. Paired with ILFORD DELTA 100 Professional, one of my […]
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5 Frames… Of London’s Greenwich Peninsula on Fujifilm Neopan ACROS II 100 at EI 400 (120 Format / EI 400 / Fujica GL690 + Fujinon S 100mm f/3.5)
This series was shot on a walk around the new developments on the Greenwich Peninsula in late April 2021. I had been having an absolute mare of a week, felt like rubbish and wanted to get out of the house but I had been procrastinating, saying to myself that I should take my camera and […]
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5 Frames… Of experimental macros on ILFORD HP5 PLUS (35mm Format / EI 800 / Canon A-1 + Canon New FD 50mm f/1.4 + macro extension tubes)
I’ve loved photography since I was a kid. I shot my first rolls back in 1996 when I was just 4, using my mother’s Minolta AF point and shoot camera. The results were far from perfect, but it was too late: I was hooked on the hobby. Time passed and when I was older my […]
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5 Frames… Of downtown Porto Alegre on Kodak 200T in a Canon AT-1 and 35mm f/2.8 FD (35mm Format / EI 200)
The classic combo for street photography is a 50mm or a 35mm lens with a black and white film behind it. Most of us grow our repertoire with that aesthetic built by many masters of photography and, as expected, we tend to mimic that look. But what if you don’t consider yourself a street photographer […]
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5 Frames… Of detached Frisian church towers in the Netherlands on Fomapan 200 Creative (120 Format / EI 200 / Ernemann Film K)
As a collector of classic camera’s made in Dresden, Germany I try to use each of my camera’s at least once. No problem as long as the camera is more or less functional and the film it takes is still available. However, in the early 20th century there was a baffling array of different film […]
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5 Frames… Of acetate negative cyanotypes, with a ‘How-To’ so you can as well
I desire to shoot large format. So far, it’s a photographic journey that I’ve not managed to start, unless you count homemade Foamcore pinhole cameras. But I’m getting closer. I will be an LF photographer one day. One day soon. Maybe even a ULF shooter. But until then, I make LF negatives by printing digital files onto […]
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5 Frames… At Pennsylvania’s Trolley Graveyard on ILFORD Delta 400 Professional (35mm Format / El 400 / Canon Elan IIe + Canon EF 50mm f/1.8 II)
I had the opportunity to participate in an organized trip to a place called the Trolley Graveyard in Windber, Pennsylvania in December of 2020. As this was almost a year into the pandemic, I jumped at the idea of going anywhere at all. It was outside and everyone would be masked and distanced and so […]
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5 Frames… Of Bergger Pancro 400, shot in a Holga 120N, so an EI of 400? (120 Format + red and orange filters)
It’s been rough. For over a year it has been hard to relax and let my guard down. So as soon as my husband and I had our appointments to get the Covid vaccine we started planning a trip so we could relax a little. Being out in nature shooting photos relaxes us and so […]
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5 Frames… Of Kodak Portra 400 under tungsten light, color corrected in post (35mm Format / EI 400 / Nikon F3 + Nikon 50mm f/1.8 Series E)
A lot has been written about the famous Nikon F3, so I decided to make it a little bit more personal and tell the story of how I shot my first roll of film in a Nikon camera. So, I was there in the middle of the lockdown, a cinematographer choosing to sell my digital […]
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5 Frames… Fujifilm NEOPAN 100 ACROS on a Voigtländer Bessa III 667 (120 Format / EI 64 / Heliar 80mm f/3.5)
It has always been my dream to take photos, develop and print them myself. When I started photography during school, I had the opportunity to do it in the school lab, but never at home. Later, at university, I lost interest, and over twenty years later an unfortunate coincidence brought me back: a broken leg […]
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5 Frames… Of 1977-expired Agfapan 100 Professional with a Nikon FM2n (35mm format / EI 50 / Nikkor 50mm f/2.0 AI)
Since the beginning of the pandemic, I started shooting film next to digital photographs. I wanted to become a better photographer and as there were no more music events (I am a photographer in the music scene), I felt it was the right time to take on this analogue challenge. After about 10 rolls of […]
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5 Frames… Of garden macros on Lomochrome Purple a Minolta X-370 (35mm Format / EI 200 / Minolta MD 50mm f/3.5 Macro Lens)
I always had a fascination with Kodak Aerochrome (Kodak, please bring it back!). So when I came across Lomography’s purple film, I jumped at the chance to test it. It’s not infrared-sensitive, but it’s the closest thing I can get my hands to have similar effects. I was hoping that Lomochrome Purple would allow me […]
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5 Frames… Around China’s Huangshan on Kodak T-MAX 400 and a Leica R6 (35mm format / EI 400 / Leica Summicron-R 35mm f/2.0
I back got into film in 2019 after I bought an almost mint-condition Hasselblad 503CW kit with the standard Carl Zeiss Planar CF 80mm f/2.8 lens, and then a Sonnar CF 150mm f/4.0. My first experience with film cameras was with a Pentax K1000 back in the 1990s, but this time I went all out. […]
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5 Frames… Of Yosemite on Fuji Pro 400H on a Yashica Mat-124 G (120 Format / EI 400 / Yashinon 80mm f/3.5)
I had a conversation with my housemate about the five places every Californian needs to visit: Los Angeles, San Francisco, the Central Coast, Lake Tahoe, and Yosemite. All are very beautiful and unique, and if you’re able, I’d highly recommend making the pilgrimage to each. I’ve been lucky enough to hit every place on the […]
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5 Frames… Of Fantôme Kino ISO 8 with a Nikon F3 (35mm Format / EI 8 / Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 AI-S)
Since I returned to regular use of film, I have been keen to try different cameras and the films now available. KosmoFoto Mono 100 was a successful experiment and I now use this often. I have tried several films with low ISO, starting with ILFORD Pan F Plus and later their Ortho Plus, both with […]
