coffee Today I wanted to shoot my last roll of Fomapan 400, but clearly it wasn’t meant to be. The leader ripped and the film never forwarded. This time I’m sure I checked that it was ...
little ones The last few months have been exceptionally productive. I’ve shot a lot over the summer while also catching up on my development. Now that the summer is pretty much over I fear that the streets ...
asleep Trying out new developers is always a bit of a scary thing, because you might ruin some perfectly good pictures in the process. Of course I try not to experiment with important rolls, but sometimes ...
35 What else could follow after a 35°C day other than a thunderstorm and a few days of rain? Well, wet ISO 1600 weather was what we had all day and I didn’t even bother taking ...
neck ache It’s been a very hot day, but I walked into town anyway to see whether I could shoot a few rolls. With the Leica I shot a roll of Fomapan 400 and the penultimate roll ...
find the dog Today when I pulled a roll of RPX400 I had just developed in Rodinal out of the tank I was a bit confused. I had developed it for 1 1/2h and the roll looked strange. ...
grumpy ladies Today I tested how well Fomapan fares pushed in Rodinal. Although the result wasn’t quite as badly fogged as the T-Max 400 I pushed to 1600 recently, it still was fogged and not a very ...
strawberries I thought I had managed to screw up my film development in every possible way already, but apparently not. Today I managed something new: I only developed half of a roll. I must have measured ...
under the ombú Sometimes things don’t quite go as planned. Originally I hoped to finish with the pictures of our longest trip this year already in May, but first my supplier didn’t deliver the chemicals for ages, then the ...
jugglers Since I’m still struggling with my cold I used the opportunity to edit a colour roll developed with the Jobo CPE-2. The hand-developed rolls that were processed with the Fuji chemicals so far often needed ...
inspired by Seidenstücker It’s easy to send me down rabbit holes when I’m thinking about projects. Since getting Kodak Vision3 500T in 120 is pretty much impossible and there don’t seem to be any 120 tungsten films at ...
to the stars The last couple of days I was in an adventurous mood. Last night I therefore took some night shots with the Rollei on Velvia 100. I think I’ve used my tripod about 3 or 4 ...
dog entertainment The other day I already thought that I was through with my batch of T-Max 400, but then I found another roll in my bag. And no, I wasn’t happy about that. Today I’ve shot ...
open 25 hours a day Since my health is acting up these days I’m neither shooting nor developing as much as I would like. However, I’m using the downtime to edit the remaining rolls from my last trip. I only ...
the revolutionary Today I wasn’t feeling so well, so I used the opportunity to edit some of the pictures from my last trip. I usually wait a while after developing to edit my pictures so that I ...
shoes Although it was already too hot at around 9.30 in the morning I still managed to go out and shoot a roll while walking along the beach. It wasn’t yet crowded and it was a ...
the godfather It’s pretty much official now: T-Max 400 and I don’t particularly like each other. It has been refusing to cooperate with some of the worst negatives I’ve had in ages. I especially struggled with lots ...
shade Today I shot my 277th roll of 35mm film. This number might sound a little random, but in fact it means that I have now shot 10,000 frames of 35mm. As HCB said: “Your first ...
exercise Last night there was a particularly pagan festival around here where kids jump over fires down at the beach. Last year I shot some pictures with my Zorki 4K and it was difficult, because the ...
tango of course The other day I must have mentioned how many rolls I still had to develop. Well, I forgot to figure in the 120, so there are 10 rolls more than I thought! This means I ...
