say no to austerity

Sometimes good photographic practice isn’t about going outside and shooting. Sometimes it’s taking care of your archive. Today I got a new folder for my negatives in the mail along with another pack of negative sleeves. I seem to go through them at a rather fast pace lately and I’m still looking for the right kind of sleeves to make me happy. I like the Adox PP sleeves, but sadly I can only get them from Fotoimpex and they have such high shipping prices to Spain that it really doesn’t make any sense. I’m somewhat less enthusiastic about the ClearFile sleeves – thinner, a little flimsy and they could do with a couple millimetres more on each side. Really, it’s as if they’re stingy on the material! The next pack I’m trying will be PrintFile sleeves and I hope they will have a less disappointing feel to them than the ClearFile ones. Exciting? Well, no, but definitely necessary.

Other than that I really tried to shoot a roll today, but somehow people were being extremely boring and I didn’t manage to finish it. And later when there were better chances of more interesting stuff happening the light had turned to a grey uninspiring muddle and I didn’t feel like going out again. Maybe I’m more lucky tomorrow.

The pictures I’m showing you today were taken during carnival. I probably should have shot these in colour, but I actually forgot to order ISO 400 colour in 120. However, at least the other Rollei roll I shot was Velvia 100, taken on another day when the light was better.

All pictures taken with: Rolleicord V, Schneider-Kreuznach Xenar 75mm f/3.5.
RPX400 stand-developed in Caffenol-CL.