Another image of a cold Lake Ontario shoreline. Even though it was a bright sunny day, using the very slow speed Eastman 2366 film (EI 15 or so), mean a rather slow shutter speed (around 1/30th of a second I believe)
Pentax K1000, 28mm/f2.8 SMC Pentax lens
Eastman 2366 film at EI 15, developed in Xtol 1:1 for 10 minutes @ 2o C
I finally finished a roll of Eastman 2366 duplicating film yesterday, both started and finished at the shores of Lake Ontario in Toronto’s Beaches district. 2366 is a slow (EI 15) very sharp film that I am really learning to love the look of! In this image, a casual glance might lead one to think it was sand, but this is all snow, on a bitterly cold January day.
Pentax K1000, 28mm/f2.8 SMC Pentax lens
Eastman 2366 film, E.I. 15, developed in Xtol 1:1 for 10 minutes
Today I went back to the snowy graveyard where I had a shoot late Thursday afternoon. I love the curved iron gate in front of this mausoleum, and the pipes that lead to the arched doorway. I just love lines!
Olympus Pen F 35mm half frame SLR, 17mm/f3.5 Tamron lens (Nikon mount, using an adapter)
Film is Eastman Double-X, developed in HC-110 dilution B for 6.5 minutes
. . . slightly bent 🙂
Olympus Pen F 35mm half-frame SLR, Nikkor 55mm/3.5 macro lens (with adapter)
Rollei 80s film, developed in Rodinal 1:50 for 16 minutes
One of my current favourite film cameras continues to be my early 1960’s era Olympus Pen F 35mm half frame single lens reflex. The only thing I don’t like about it is that I only have one lens for it, and additional lenses are collectable (read, not cheap). So I was thrilled last week when an adapter arrived from China that will allow me to use Nikon and Canon glass on this camera. (It’s really two adapters in one: a Canon EF to Olympus Pen adapter, and a Nikkor to Canon EF adapter). Yesterday before meeting up with a friend I went out in highly variable weather with a Nikkor 105mm/f.25 lens attached. While I got some vignetting in the viewfinder it didn’t seem to affect the final images :-).
The white dots are snowflakes.
Olympus Pen F, Nikkor 105mm/f2.5 lens
Rollei 80s developed in Rodinal 1:50 for 16 minutes
This morning I took advantage of a striking winter sun and went down to Sugar Beach in Toronto. Although the sun was bright the wind was bitter, and it was challenge using the camera with thick gloves on,
The film I used (for the first time) was Eastman Duplicating film 2366, a specialized stock with high contrast, high sharpness and very fine grain. I was shooting into the sun so there is some inevitable highlight blow-out but I think it suits the look.
Pentax K1000 35mm SLR, 28mm/f2.8 SMC Pentax lens,
Eastman 2366 film exposed at EI 10, developed in Xtol 1:1 for 10 minutes @ 20 C
I’ve decided to do the occasional Flashback Friday, using images I’ve created sometime in the past but didn’t post at the time. This film image (taken at a dance rehearsal with  I think a Nikon N90x 35mm SLR) has a number of technical challenges, but I do like the lines and light.
This image is from an outing on January 1st, in a valley park in central Toronto. It was quiet and cold. I think I saw one other person while I was there.
Canon 7, 21mm/4 Voigtlander Skopar lens, Polypan F developed in Diafine 3 + 3
Today’s photo comes from an outing with my good friend Mike, and his son. Both were equipped with film cameras, and in this picture is it obvious that Mike’s son is learning. It is great to see a love of film photography being passed on to the next generation, in the face of the usual “film is dead” gloom and doom and what can only be described as ignorance of film capabilities on the part of some digital-only shooters. This blog post jarred me, when the author stated that the negative of famous “Afghan Girl” photo by Steve McCurry wasn’t likely of very high resolution since it was taken in 1984. He was completely unaware of the fact that the image was shot on Kodachrome slide film, which had the equivalent of 20 megapixels of resolution. Ouch.
Olympus Pen F 35mm half-frame SLR, Eastman Double-X film developed in HC-110 Dilution B for 6.5 minutes
Film shooters our mission is clear: keep shooting film, keep producing work that shows what film is capable of, and pass on our knowledge and love of film photography to others!!
Happy New Year!
For my last post this year, one more image from my “mystery roll” that had images from the VOX conference in Hamilton. For this image I used my Voigtlander 21mm/4, a lens that mounts on any camera that uses the classic Leica screwmount (in my case I used my early 1960’s vintage Canon 7 rangefinder). I love the sharpness of this lens, and I need to use it more!
Canon 7, 21mm/4 Voigtlander lens, Fomapan 100 developed in D-23 1:1 for 15 minutes
My Third Eye 