I’m jotting down this post for personal use, as I’m trying to fine-tune my shooting and development process for Ilford HP5+ on the Leica M7. After years of developing black and white film at home, I think it’s safe to say I’ve settled to Kodak XTOL as my favorite developer at 1:1. Sometimes it’s a […]
THE BACKGROUND DISCLAIMER: This is not a serious “Review.” This is “fun with lens adaptors.” Four years ago, during the quarantine, I performed a small shootout of my Soviet and Japanese M42 lenses on film, shot with a Pentax SP 500 (you can find the results here). Meanwhile, this year, I finally managed to acquire […]
Lately. In color. Around Athens. Mingus & Le Fouf:
Black & White film is my favorite thing in photography. The only constant medium that I have completely adored to shoot in for the past 20+ years. Sometimes–very, very rarely–an entire film comes out just perfect (even with, and especially due to, its imperfections) and this is one such case for me. It is an […]
From the last couple of months. Film & Digital. Film: Digital: till next time :)
For at least the last ten years, it’s been a struggle for me to manage to own both a film and a digital camera (with interchangeable lenses) at the same time. Around 2012, I was using a full Nikon system (F3/D700 + lenses) but when I decided to switch to a Leica Q Digital, I […]
Kentmere 400 in HC110 1:31: Ilford HP5 in HC110 1:31:
“Color (film) is dead, long live (digital) color!” The industry killed it for me (and countless other people who loved it) through constant price increases that have now officially made it completely unaffordable. There is absolutely NO WAY I’ll ever pay these crazy prices (upwards of 10 or sometimes 15 euros) for TRASH films like […]
