Tag: 5 Frames…
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5 Frames… Of ILFORD HP5 PLUS on a Werra I (35mm Format / EI 500 / Carl Zeiss Jena 50/2.8 Tessar)
The Werra I is an east german jewel of a camera, produced from 1954 until 1967 by Cal Zeiss Jena. Love at first glance is how it started for me; the camera looked like the brainchild of a team of designers free from the directives emanating from marketing executives, or any other authority, as a…
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5 Frames… On original Fujifilm ACROS with a century-old Kodak Hawkeye No2 Model B (120 Format / EI 100)
Last year’s lockdown left me simultaneously busy with work and also with lots of time stuck at home I would not have normally had. The up and downsides of the new lockdown lifestyle. One of the advantages of this was it gave me a bit of time to sort through some old cameras I’d been…
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5 Frames… Of Kodak Ektar 100 from a year around Georgia on Kodak Ektar 100 (35mm Format / EI 100 / Pentax K1000)
Late last year, my wife and I wanted to combine my love of photography with our shared love of travel, exploring, and just getting into adventures together. We decided to work on a personal photo project. For the project, we are attempting to visit every county in the state of Georgia in the 2021 Calendar…
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5 Frames… Of Adox KB 17 during ‘Der Fasching’ at the heart of the Black Forest in 1960s Germany (35mm / EI 100 / Asahi Pentax SV + 28mm f/3.5 Super-Takumar)
Way back in 1963, in the early years of my photojournalism career, a German friend of mine who was about to emigrate to the US persuaded me to join him on a visit to his homeland in early February. ‘It’s the season of Der Fasching,’ he explained excitedly. ‘Everyone dresses up, there are big street…
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5 Frames… Of 15 year expired Agfa Scala 200 on a King Regula Cita III (35mm Format / EI 200 / Tessar f/2.8 lens)
After twenty years hiatus from film photography, I sold all my digital gear and got back to my roots, and what better film than two fifteen-year-old expired rolls of Agfa Scala, to play with! The shots were taken in different lighting conditions most in natural light conditions or just normal room tungsten lights, I find…
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5 Frames… Of surreal colour with Lomography Lomochrome Purple XR 100-400 (35mm Format / EI 160 / Nikon F5 + Nikkor 50mm 1.4 G Af-S)
When I first bought a 5 pack of Lomography’s Lomochrome Purple XR 100-400 I wondered if the novelty might wear off after a roll or two and I fully expected to resell the rest. After a couple of rolls though, I realised there was something more to it than novelty and I couldn’t get enough.…
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5 Frames… Testing a Yashica MG-1 with Fujicolor C200 and new light seals (35mm Format / EI 200 / Yashinon 45mm f/2.8)
The story began around 5 years ago. In March 2016, my friend sent a message telling me she had discovered a film camera while spring cleaning her office. I went down to see her and have a look at the camera, a fixed lens range finder, the Yashica MG-1 with Yashinon 45mm f/2.8 lens. Upon…
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5 Frames… Of Santa RAE 1000 at Christmas in Berlin (35mm Format / EI 1000 / Nikon F3HP + Nikon Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 AI-S)
5 Frames… Of Santa RAE 1000 at Christmas in Berlin (35mm Format / EI 1000 / Nikon F3HP + Nikon Nikkor 50mm f/1.4 AI-S) – by Oleg Popelyaev December… The magical time in Germany. The time when the streets are starting to bloom again… Well not exactly to bloom in a natural way like the…
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5 Frames… Of Icelandic industrial edge on Fuji Pro 400H and a Mamiya 645 Pro (120 Format / EI 400 / Mamiya Sekor-C 80 mm f/2.8)
In between covid lockdowns, my girlfriend and I had the chance to visit Iceland. We went lightweight and camped everywhere. Lightweight except that I had brought my digital Pentax SLR in conjunction with two film bodies: the Mamiya C220 6×6 format TLR and my Mamiya 645 Pro 6×4.5 format SLR. Although I regretted the extra…
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5 Frames… Of MASSIVE engineering on a tiny camera (Fujicolor Superia X-Tra 400 / 35mm / Minox 35 GT)
Last December I went on a trip to the area where my mother was born and where parts of my family still live. It’s an area close to Cologne which is marked by the brown coal industry. There are several power plants still contributing to Germany’s energy supply and brown coal has been mined and…
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5 Frames… At Sharjah’s Fossil Rock on ILFORD HP5 PLUS and a Leica M4 (35mm Format / EI 100 / Voigtlander Color-Skopar 35mm f/2.5 P II)
I have been using a 50mm lens almost exclusively for around two years, and I recently wanted to switch it up. The 35mm focal length has been on my radar for a few months, so when a good price for the Voigtlander Color-Skopar 35mm f/2.5 PII appeared online it caught my attention. Within the week…
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5 Frames… Around Hai Phong, Vietnam on my 1920 Graflex RB Tele 4×5 and ILFORD HP5 PLUS (4×5 Format / EI 400 / Voigtlander Heliar 210mm f/4.5 c.1920 lens)
I’m from Seattle, WA, US yet I have been overseas for the last 13 years, working, exploring, and experiencing what you see in travel vlogs. I’m now in Hai Phong, Vietnam, around 2 hours to the west of Hanoi on the coast near Ha Long Bay. I arrived from Birmingham, UK with previous stops in…
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5 Frames… Testing a Canon AE-1 on Kodak Portra 400 (35mm Format / EI 125 / Canon AE-1 + FD 70-210mm f/4)
“Miss Kozun, you look fantastic! Love the outfit” … “Thanks! It was either this or I was going to be wearing a giraffe onesie all day!” Oh, 2020, what a strange year you have been! Thankfully with only a few days left, Kristi and I managed to squeeze in a little respite of normal and…
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5 Sheets… Of Fujifilm Instax Square Monochrome on a Mamiya RB67 (EI 800 / Mamiya Sekor C 127mm f/3.8)
I’ve spent over a decade of my life living and breathing photography. Like many, I started with digital but quickly realized that I wanted a more physical process. I was, and still am, spending entirely too much time behind a computer. I’ve shot multiple formats, from 35mm to medium and even large format. And then,…
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5 Frames… On Fujifilm Pro 400H on a Zeiss Ikon Nettar II 518/16 (EI 400 / 120 Format / Novar-anastigmat 75mm f/6.3)
5 Frames… On Fujifilm Pro 400H on a Zeiss Ikon Nettar II 518/16 (EI 400 / 120 Format / Novar-anastigmat 75mm f/6.3) – by Dylan Smith I got into photography back in the film days, first on 35mm format, then gradually moved to medium format. I went from a Kiev 88 to Mamiya 645E and…
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5 Frames… Of expired Jessops CS100 in Vanadzor, Armenia (EI 100 / 35mm Format / Mamiya ZM + Osawa 28mm f/2.8)
I have a habit of browsing for cheap films on eBay. At the time I was impressed by the results I got by shooting my first slide films, namely Provia, Velvia, and even Fujichrome 50 expired in 1991, so I was searching for a cheap slide film from time to time. This was when I…
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5 Frames… Of a ghost town called Chicago in January 2021 (Kodak T-MAX 400 (35mm Format / EI 320 / Nikon F + Nikkor NC Auto 24mm f/2.8 pre-AI)
It’s the beginning of 2021 and COVID is still running full force. I am a freelance corporate photographer and COVID-19 has decimated my business. So this was a rare instance in which a client from a Chicago law firm called for some portraits of a few new attorneys. I hadn’t been to downtown Chicago since…
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5 Frames… Of in-focus shots with a Nikonos III on Arista.EDU Ultra 100 (120 Format / EI 200)
Most of us that have been around film photography for a long time know the Nikon Nikonos underwater camera. It was always a bit of a mysterious camera, reserved for fantastic journeys into the great depths of the oceans. These days, Nikonos cameras seem to be more of a curiosity of the past. Sadly, these were precision-engineered…
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5 Frames… Of sharp shots on a soft lens with Kodak Portra 400 + flash (35mm Format / EI 400 / Olympus OM-1n + G. Zuiko 55mm f/1.2)
Oh … well, this is more of a story of how I quit film and then went back to it again. You see, I was having some issues with the toxicity of the film community here in Vietnam and so I decided to quit film photography for good. I got myself a Fujifilm X-T2 but…
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5 Frames… Of my (maybe) new favourite film, Kodak Ektar 100 (120 Format / EI 100 / Kowa Six + Kowa 85mm f/2.8)
Ever since I started shooting medium format film, I’ve been searching for a favourite film stock and I think I may have found it in Kodak’s Ektar 100 Professional After a short walk with my Kowa Six and Kowa Lens-S 85mm f/2.8 loading with a roll of Ektar 100, I found this tiny log in…
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