Not pleased with the Hasselblad as a mobile device, so I purchased a collapsable Medium Format Rangefinder with a nicely coated lens – a Super Ikonta BX from the era of “A Streetcar Named Desire”, Duke Ellington and George Gershwin.
“The last 40 rolls of Neopan 400” – the Saga continues. This time the films were flooded with light first and with Xtol afterwards. Shown in comparison with two cameras, metering modes and gradation styles.
My first color film for this project is a Kodak Ultramax, shot with a compact point & shoot and a fixed 28mm focal length.
I love rangefinders. Small but capable cameras, manual focus with some help from the viewfinder. The best ones have large and clear viewfinders that show a little bit “outside” of the frame. So when I found this Olympus XA on a fleamarket I couldn’t resist. However it has since then developed a problem (the shutter…
Thanks to Craigslist and IFTTT, I am now the proud owner of a JOBO CPA2 film processor. I sat down to skim the manuals, then loaded my first roll of color film into it. The results were disastrous. In my haste, I had not checked the expiration date of my C-41 chemistry. Junk. I loaded…
While the rest of the world seems to able to easily purchase Rodinal, in Australia there has been a complete paucity in supply. Rodinal is nowhere to be purchased for love nor money. This crisis has been brought about by air freight regulations, and importers seemingly not planning for customer needs. Rodinal is one of…
Week 1 was in Hot Springs, Arkansas with my Olympus OM-1 on Fuji Superia 400. Week 2 was shot in Downtown Memphis and my home neighborhood of Cooper Young. More at my Flickr page https://flic.kr/s/aHskbP7b65
These were taken around St Ives in Cornwall (UK) in October (My rolls are a bit out of sequence). I still really love my XA! Hope you enjoy these images, thanks for looking! This is my dog, Baxter, and I think this may be the best shot I have ever taken of him with a…
For roll 38 I took my Olympus XA out hiking with me, just for fun. I have said this before, but I love that little camera so much. It has become my favorite camera, hands down (aside from my Zero 4×5). It fits so easily in my pocket and doesn’t weigh me down when I…
Apologies if my Olympus XA and Ilford HP5+ combination is getting repetitive! Earlier in the year I went through a bit of a phase of this camera and film combo and have done all my processing in one large batch with my new Epson V550 scanner. These photos were taken on a dog walk around…
I have to saw that I am now completely out of sync with the 52 rolls projects, I have a massive backlog of film and absolutely no idea of what order it was shot! So I am just going to number them in the order that I get round to blogging about them, hope that…
No story this roll, just me, the XA and a roll of Delta 400 in Downtown Dallas:
52 rolls 