When I tell people I still shoot film, and show them a film camera (normally a medium format or 35 mm camera) I often get the question “Can you still get film for that?” and people are surprised when I tell them that getting film is no problem. A case in point is two films I tried out this past weekend, Fomapan 100 Classic, and Ilford SFX Extended red sensitivity film.
The image below was taken using Fomapan 100 Classic. This is a Czech film, medium speed, with a classic tonality and grain structure. I developed the roll using the classic Rodinal developer for extra sharpness and definition. I’ll becoming back to this combination a lot!
The second film I tried for the first time this past weekend was Ilford SFX film; not quite an infrared film, but with an extended red sensitivity, which when coupled with a red filter gave a lovely almost porcelain look in the skin of the model in this image (NSFW). No post-processing was required for this tonality, and this is another combination I’ll be going back to in the future!
My Third Eye 
Great range of texture and details in the shadows and highlights – thanks
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Thanks Andy!
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that’s the question I am being asked all the time – can you still get film for that camera? I bought a few cameras off classified ads, and people who sold them all asked the question what am I going to do with those cameras – they were surprised to hear that I am going to use them in their intended capacity and that yes you can still get film and as inexpensive as was the case ten or so years ago – just through mailorder channels, most regular stores stopped stocking film. That might not be the case forever as I am afraid film manufacturers will go extinct one by one;
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