It’s been a while since my last post. With work going crazy and then a trip down to Southern California, I wasn’t really able to shoot much. However, here are a few selections from two different rolls I shot in the past month or so.
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Slides, now in 120 format
I went a little overboard when I made my slide film purchase. On top of the 35mm film box I also bought two packs of the Kodak Ektachrome E100G in 120 format. I’ve had it for a while, but I haven’t had much time to shoot lately. After doing battle with the DMV, I went out to my favorite spot in the city to take in some nature and shoot some slide film.
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Tagged 120 film, Kodak Ektachrome E100G, San Francisco, Yashica D
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And then there were slides
When I started picking up film photography as a hobby again, I read a lot of material on the art to try to figure out what I had missed in the ten years since I owned a film camera. One of the most often repeated things I heard was that I should probably stick with negative film, as shooting slides was very difficult. Aside from one roll of Kodachrome that I shot last year, I’ve mostly avoided slides. However, approximately a year and a half since I bought my first film SLR, I thought it was time to take the dive into shooting slides.
Early morning in San Francisco
One of my favorite things to do is to wake up early in the morning before the sun rises and go down to Crissy Field and watch the sunrise over the San Francisco Bay. In doing so, you sometimes experience some of the most amazing lighting you will ever see. I took the Yashica D and loaded it up with some Kodak Ektar, and off I went.
Yashica D
Lately, I’ve been shooting almost exclusively 35mm film. This has afforded me many opportunities to experiment with different stocks and techniques. However, I knew that 35mm film wasn’t the only type of still film still out there, so I decided to take the plunge and buy myself a vintage medium format TLR.
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Tagged 120 film, Kodak Ektar 100, Kodak Portra 400, Kodak Tri-X 400, Yashica D
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Golden Gate in the Fog
I have tons of Legacy Pro left. Some is in the freezer. Other rolls I’m going to let expire just to see what happens. Before then, though, I took some out to the Golden Gate bridge at sunrise on an extremely foggy day.
Pentacon auto 1.8/50
This post is a little different. All posts before this have been focused on a particular film stock, but today I decided to talk a little bit about a specific lens. The past two shoots I decided that I was going to use the first lens I bought, a m42 mount Pentacon 1.8/50. Like my ЮПИТЕР 37А, it requires an adaptor to be used on my EOS Canon bodies and is fully manual focus and aperture.
The City in Black and White
Sometimes there is a deal so good, you cannot pass it up. In my case, it was 20 rolls of Legacy Pro 400 black and white film. I haven’t been able to find out much about the film, but some people suggest that Legacy Pro is really a really a rebrand of Fuji Neopan 400. Needless to say, I had no idea what to expect. This post actually has two rolls with two separate days worth of shots.
SF Botanical Garden in Kodak Portra 400
The San Francisco Botanical Garden has to be my favorite spot in the city. It’s calm, relaxing, mostly quiet and filled with interesting flowers and wildlife. I had some Kodak Portra 400 loaded in the Elan7 with the 135mm attached. Continue reading
