High Park. Everywhere one looks there is lush growth.
Voigtlander Bessa R2M
Eastman Double-X film
Tag: Eastman Double-X
Over the Tracks
On Saturday I paid a return visit to the Junction district in Toronto with my good friend Bill Smith. One spot I really like is the bridge over the railway near Dundas West subway station.
Voigtlander Bessa R2M camera, 35mm/f2.5 Color Skopar lens
Eastman Double X film
Arches
The Royal Ontario Museum is an architectural identity crisis but it does have some nice spots.
Voigtlander Bessa R2M, Eastman Double-X film
With Friends
I was out with two good friends Bryon and Ken on Saturday evening, and with me I had my Olympus Pen F 35mm half frame SLR (dating from the early 1960’s) with a 38mm/1.8 Olympus Zuiko lens. The film I was shooting was Eastman Double-X, which is actually meant for 35mm movie camera use. It is not particularly fine grained film, and the smaller half frame negative magnifies this, but I like the gritty documentary look, especially for my friends who have both had interesting lives, with a lot of interesting stories to tell.
2014 and Film Still Isn’t Dead
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!
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