I recently shot some colour film at Bluffer’s Beach in Scarborough. It was a interesting morning light, with a layer of thin, hazy cloud.
Mamiya RZ67, Kodak Ektar 100 film
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Another Fine Grain Film
In yesterday’s post I featured images created using long discontinued Kodak Technical Pan. Thankfully, there is a worthy successor still being made today: Rollei ATP 1.1. This is another slow speed film with extremely fine grain and sharpness, but also requiring special handling in development. This first roll was developed using Rollei RLC Low contrast developer, which does a great job, but is not cheap. I have more of this film coming, and I will test one roll using Rodinal, a much less expensive developer, to see if I can get comparable results.
Mamiya RZ67, 65mm Mamiya C lens
Rollei ATP 1.1 film @ E.I. 20
Developed in Rollei RLC Low contrast developer, 1+4, 6 minutes @ 20C
Lazarus Film #2
The bag that had the roll of Panatomic X also contained a roll of Kodak Technical Pan dating from the 1970’s, so of course decades past expiry. This is a slow speed film so I was reasonably hopeful that it would be usable, and I was not disappointed. Kodak Technical Pan, long discontinued, was a super sharp high resolution film requiring special development to manage contrast, and I love its look! These three images were shot in the ravine in the Beaches.
Mamiya RZ67, 65mm Mamiya C lens
Kodak Technical Pan film, developed in Rollei RLC Low contrast developer
Erosion
It make look like large rocks but this is clay that has fallen at Bluffer’s Beach in Scarborough, On.
Mamiya RZ67, 65mm C lens
Rollei SuperPan 200 film
Zoë in Black and White
Here are two more portraits of Zoë, in black and white. Both taken with my RZ67. The first one was shot on Ilford FP4+ film, the second on Ultrafine Xtreme 100; I got this roll free from Downtown Camera to try out. Very nice film!
Like a Spider
I was at Bluffer’s Beach last weekend, and to my eyes this tangled mess looked like a spider.
Mamiya RZ67, 65mm Mamiya C lens
Rollei SuperPan 200 film
Zoë in Colour
Recently I had a shoot with my friend Zoë. I decided to use my Mamiya RZ67 medium format camera, 127mm lens and Kodak Portra 400 film, and was happy with the results!
Lazarus Film
While looking for something else in my darkroom I came across something I didn’t know I had: a roll of Kodak Panatomic X film from the 1980’s obviously long-expired. Slow speed films tend to be usable long after their expiry dates so I gave it a shot. There was some staining on the negatives but with some work in post I got some usable images, like these two.
Posing Machinery
When I saw this piece of Heavy Machinery in the Lower Don Valley, it seemed to me like it was posing
Mamiya RZ67, 90mm RB lens
Fujifilm Neopan Acros film
Under a Bridge In the Lower Don Valley
I was out this past Sunday morning with my Mamiya RZ67 camera. It is large, fairly heavy and really needs to be mounted on a tripod. I have recently moved away from Large Format/4×5 (you can hear my reasons why on a recent episode of MPP) and am finding that shooting this camera on a tripod gave me everything I needed for that kind of experience, without the downsides.
Mamiya RZ67, 90mm RB lens
Fujifim Neopan Acros film
My Third Eye 