One of the things that drives me nuts is washed out shadows. When my film is underexposed, my scans come back from the lab with shadows that are dark gray instead of black. I can fix this in [read the rest...]

So my birthday is coming up. This was fortuitously timed with the almost complete exhaustion of the battery in my Apple iPhone 3G (not GS…I’m behind the times by two generations). So my wife [read the rest...]

Just received my first rolls of the new Kodak Portra 160, and have the scans back from the lab. I took the boys to the zoo and figured it’d be a good time to a) test the new formulation of the [read the rest...]

This is a fun benefit of shooting with Fujifilm FP3000B instant film. You get a nice ‘positive’ black and white print from the process, but you can also use the throw-away [read the rest...]

I guess it shouldn’t be a surprise. Still, it’s a great thrill to hear that Kodak has followed their New Portra 400 formulation with a New Portra 160. Gone are the VC/NC designations. And [read the rest...]

Continuing on from the last post, here are the results of my other test: rating Kodak Portra 400 at ISO 3200 (!), and then having the lab push it two stops. Why two? Because it’s cheaper than [read the rest...]

Just got an email from B&H today. The new (and amazing) Portra 400 is now available in 35mm. Link here. [read the rest...]

I’ve been seriously considering switching my professional photography from purely digital, to some mix of film and digital for a few months now. I shoot almost exclusively film when I’m [read the rest...]

I’ve been shooting medium-format film for long enough that I forget how different it is from 35mm film. If you’ve never shot medium format (i.e. 120/220) or any roll-film format for that [read the rest...]

My Zorki-4 arrived from the Ukraine in a condition that was substantially less than represented in the online auction (as moaned about here). The missing screw was relatively easy to replace, and [read the rest...]