best friends Even though with digital I don’t need to scan the pictures or remove dust from them, editing still takes a considerable amount of time, mainly because I need to do the selection among many more ...
quiet I guess we all have good days and bad days, but for once it’s actually a whole bad week for me. Every day something happens that throws me off balance. Ah well, that’s how it ...
down they look Just now I saw an article that Ilford film sales have increased by 8% in the last year after declining for many years. This is great news, since everyone who shoots film is always worried ...
glare Most of these were taken on a trip at the beginning of the month. I didn’t take many digital pictures on the trip, mostly because I had forgotten my charger at home and ran out ...
the doll It’s been a roller coaster of a week and it would have been full even with half the things that happened. I guess the next few weeks will be similar as well and I probably ...
the elephant Whenever I shoot my XA at night I usually follow it up with a couple of rolls shot at ISO 800 in daylight, because I forgot to change the setting of the light meter. This ...
irony Yesterday I started re-scanning the pictures of my Progress through Demolition project. I made the original scans with my old Epson v330 and I wanted to see whether I could improve on the quality of ...
Why shoot film in the digital age? Lately I have been thinking a lot about analog photography and whether I should maybe stop doing digital photography altogether. Wait, what? Don’t we live in the digital age and isn’t film something completely outdated? ...
together The Rolleicord can be a bit challenging for shooting street. There is so much to keep in mind: Forwarding the film, the number of exposures left on the roll, cocking the shutter, setting the correct ...
ultimo febrero – Kentmere 400 I have been playing with Kentmere 400 for over a year now and I shot around 30 rolls of the stuff. I have tried it with D76, Rodinal, Tetenal Ultrafin and finally Caffenol-CL. After all ...
don’t bite the bear – Caffenol-CL The other day I developed some film in coffee for the first time. I wanted to try this for a while and had all the ingredients for stand-development sitting around with my other chemicals for ...
bomb These will be the last pictures from Berlin for a while. I have been avoiding this post, but I guess it had to come sooner or later now that I don’t live in Berlin anymore. ...
ouch Today I’ll show you some pictures from another one of those strange Basque traditions. Like many of them it involves drumming and the kids love it, but apart from that I have no idea what ...
chess When people ask me whether shooting film is more difficult then I usually say no. It doesn’t have to be more difficult at all, especially if you shoot with an automatic camera and use a ...
legs Today I show you some pictures from the first roll taken with my Yashica Electro 35 cc after extensive repairs. The rangefinder was stuck, there was something loose in the top plate, it had light ...
taking a peek In all of August I took only one digital picture and it was a picture of my film stock. I wasn’t shooting too much, maybe 2 rolls a week. After all I was on holiday! ...
death and guitars After showing you some Rolleicord pictures from the Mauerpark yesterday I might as well show you the digital pictures from the same day. I should really catch up with my film pictures as well though. ...
mauerpark On the weekend we went on a trip to Bilbao to see a Braque exhibition at the Guggenheim. Although we were not too impressed with the exhibition the trip was really nice and I came back with 6 ...
your mother … During my trip to Berlin in March I shot this roll and completely forgot about it after scanning it. The negatives were a bit more contrasty than what Kentmere normally looks like in Rodinal, because I ...
triplets When I was looking for a small automatic rangefinder I very quickly got interested in one of the most popular ones, the Yashica Electro 35. However, the more common models looked quite big and they ...
