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 ...
no fear At the beginning of each month I always spend a few days editing the pictures of a full month in one go. It was time to get the pictures shot in July out of the ...
salty In our house the most dangerous thing to ask is: “Do you want to go to a bookshop?”, and yet, I do say it from time to time. The sun came out in the afternoon, ...
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 ...
beach bar at night You might have noticed that in most of my posts these days I talk of technical details more than anything else. The reason is that most of my other summer adventures apart from the development ...
playing catch This month was a rather productive one. I not only managed to develop, scan and edit a significant portion of my rolls from Argentina but also managed to keep up with the development of the ...
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 ...
the moves After a few days of “fun” with my health I finally managed to get some shooting done down at the beach. I hacked a couple of Kodak Gold 200 rolls to register as ISO 400 ...
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. ...
telekinesis After all the work with development the last few days I took a break today and only edited pictures. After all, this has to be done too at some point! It’s good to finally see ...
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 ...
the eyes Today I looked through my negative folder and located two rolls that I’ve been meaning to re-scan to test my Pakon scanner a bit more. Of course I’ve already scanned literally hundreds of rolls with ...
sideways After another 5 rolls of colour last night I developed 3 rolls of black and white today. I’m currently in the process of testing out Fomapan 400 and have already found the right development time ...
night watch Today I shot my last roll of Velvia 100 in the Mamiya. This means that I’ve now shot 10 rolls of 120 slide film and I only need to shoot 2 more rolls to be ...
movement Today I’m showing you some leftovers from my last trip and different rolls. There is only one more colour roll from this trip which I will show you tomorrow. I didn’t shoot much street on ...
summer The other day I already updated my portfolio page and now I’ve also taken the time to update my projects a little. There is a new project of self-portraits on film which is something I’ve ...
the stuff of nightmares Last time I counted I had 37 rolls left to develop. Since then I’ve developed at least 20 rolls, probably more, but somehow I now have 48 rolls left to develop. Either my maths is ...
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 ...
trespassing Yesterday I finally concluded a to-do item that is probably two years old. I wanted to display the blog posts in a different way on the general blog page so that they are easier to ...
escape velocity If you want to know why I sometimes like to shoot colour, then you will see a bunch of reasons in this post. This roll of Cinestill was shot on my last trip and I just love the results. And you will also see why I love rangefinders too. All of these were taken at speeds of 1/8 to 1/15, handheld. Pretty much impossible with an SLR unless you have image stabilisation. And of course my Zeiss lens is fantastic. The lens is really sharp, so it can be shot wide open without any problems. Although f/2.8 is really pushing it for handheld outdoor night shots it works even then, at least if you pick your shots carefully and shoot at ISO 1600. I'm thinking of investing in a faster 50mm lens before the winter so that I'm a bit more flexible, but I'm really impressed with this lens already. It was the perfect pick as my standard lens and it surpassed my expectations.