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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
public sleeping Today’s pictures were taken in Berlin on the day that I got my Rolleicord. I wasn’t quite decided yet, so we walked around a little more and then came back to the shop to buy ...
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 ...
modern driftwood In the winter a big storm hit San Sebastian and a flood damaged all the four bridges and part of the beach front. The next day I went for a walk with my Zorki to see the ...
too late I stopped using an external light meter with my Zorki more than a year ago. It just slowed me down way too much and I felt like I was just blindly following the light meter ...
we have to wait outside At the end of January we went to Bilbao to escape the noise of the celebrations of the day of San Sebastian. It was rainy, grey and dark, just as was to be expected in ...
guggenheim At the beginning of the year we went to Bilbao for a long weekend. In winter the Basque country is very wet, so we got rained on quite a lot. However, we still had a ...
take away coffee Before I continue with my usual mischief I actually want to catch up on all my editing. This way I can actually be up to date for once instead of always trying to catch up ...
big hug for grandma I was 16 when I shot my first roll of black and white film. I can’t remember what kind of film it was, but it must have been ISO 100 film, because I came back ...
toros de fuego The Basques certainly have some dangerous traditions. We found ourselves in the middle of one of them at the end of the Semana Grande when we stumbled into a celebration that involved runners carrying wooden ...
libre A new batch of film has arrived and so I have now 25 rolls of Tri-X to shoot, 10 of which are 35mm and 15 are 120 film. As you can clearly see from the ...
bored keeper Being in the Basque Country also has its downsides. One of them is that doing paperwork concerning the Spanish government always involves metal detectors and x-rays. Sure, I can understand the notion. After all I ...
we are getting bigger and bigger This roll had a couple of problems: The first one was a mistake I made during shooting. I thought I had accidentally triggered the double exposure lock of the Isolette by pressing the shutter button ...
