My photographic christmas wishlist

efix — Mon, 12 Dec 2011 16:55:45 +0000

These days I’ve been thinking a lot about stuff I’d like to treat myself with for christmas. Alas, the budget for new toys roughly equals zero this year. Still, being the gearhead that I am, here’s a list of what I would have Santa bring me

M.Zuiko Digital 45mm f/1.8 — Olympus’ latest Micro Four Thirds lens offering, equivalent to a 90mm portrait lens / short tele in 35mm terms. Being raved about by everyone who has it, and generally getting quite favourable reviews. This would complement my Lumix 20/1.7 nicely for a two-lens kit.

Ghost in the machine

efix — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 08:51:38 +0000

My Contax T recently decided to act up, exposing only every other frame properly. The rest of the time the shutter would either not open or not close, yielding overexposed shots or frame not exposed at all. (It needs to be sent in for repair, and I found a small company in Germany who will be able to fix it.)

When I put in a roll of that rather expensive Kodak Ektachrome E100G, sometime late October, I wasn’t yet aware of the problem. Only while shooting it I noticed that the sound the shutter made sometimes wasn’t what I [...]

Portra 800 & Elite Chrome Extra Color

efix — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:13:54 +0000

Finished scanning and processing two more rolls of film — one roll of Portra 800, and one roll of Elite Chrome Extra Color (“EBX”), both shot with the little Contax T.

I originally loaded the Portra 800 to take some low light pictures during theatre rehearsals, but ended up finishing the roll in daylight, which worked pretty well except for having to stop down to f/16 most of the time. I find Portra 800 has very pleasing colours and very nice (read: unobtrusive) grain for such a fast film. Click the image below to see my stuff tagged “kodak [...]

Fujichrome Velvia 100F

efix — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:20:10 +0000

Velvia 100F, short RVPF, is a Fujichrome slide film emulsion with very warm and saturated colours, ideally suited for landscape photography during the golden hour. It has a very strong red tint that limits its use to suitable scenes.

I have recently shot a roll of this film with my Contax T. Click the image below to see all my stuff on flickr tagged “fujichrome velvia 100f”.

Sunset over Cappel, Marburg, Germany | Contax T + Fujichrome Velvia 100F

Fujichrome Sensia 100

efix — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 20:29:52 +0000

A couple weeks ago I tried Fujichrome Sensia 100 in my Yashica Electro 35 GT, after I found its tonality rather pleasing in the Color Efex emulation. Well, it turned out I didn’t like it so much in reality. But this might also have been due to the fact that the Yashica’s lens isn’t colour corrected, and I was using the Epson V330 scanner which isn’t up to the task of scanning slide film.

Anyway, here’s my flickr stuff tagged “fujichrome sensia 100″, in case you’re interested. It’s only a couple of frames, though.

My favourite shot [...]

Picture of the day | September 6th, 2011

efix — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:43:59 +0000

Wowzers! It’s already September? Well, fitting the rather gray and dull early autumn weather we’re currently experiencing, here’s a recent shot taken on Lucky 100 b&w film.

"Piece o' cake" | Yashica Electro 35 GT + Lucky 100 SHD

I guess I’m equipped for a little while … except …

efix — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 09:21:05 +0000

My current stock of film and film cameras. This’ll keep me busy for a couple months, I guess

Top left: Black-and-white negative emulsions. Lucky 100, Delta 400, Tri-X 400, T-MAX 400.

Bottom left: Colour negative emulsions. Fuji Reala 100, Fuji Pro 160C, Ektar 100, Fuji Pro 400H, Portra 400, Portra 160VC, Portra 160, Portra 800.

Right: Colour reversal emulsions. Elite Chrome Extra Color, Ektar E100G, Ektar E100VS, Fuji Pro 400H, Provia 400X, Astia 100F, Velvia 50, Velvia 100, Provia 100F.

To say it with Alan [...]

Some impressions with Velvia 50

efix — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 15:05:52 +0000

I recently shot a roll of Velvia 50 in my Contax T. I knew beforehand that the film is very saturated and very contrasty. What I didn’t know was that Velvia 50 is also very sensitive to correct exposure, as it hasn’t got a lot of margin for error.

As I was neither familiar with that particular emulsion, nor with the behaviour of my Contax T’s light meter in different lighting situations, many shots on that roll turned out underexposed and extremely difficult to scan and salvage.

Still, I’ve got a number of great shots and already bought another [...]

Kodak Elite Chrome = ♥

efix — Mon, 08 Aug 2011 06:42:19 +0000

I really don’t know any good reason why I should ever use anything other than a nice film camera loaded with Kodak Elite Chrome again. Really. None. Except maybe that in a couple of years there probably won’t be no Elite Chrom anymore, if “progress” continues like it did the past years …

Pictures tagged "kodak elite chrome 100" in efixphoto's photostream on flickr!

(Click the picture above to see all my images tagged “kodak elite chrome 100″!)

Turorial video: how to load a Contax T with film

efix — Sat, 30 Jul 2011 08:27:21 +0000

Loading the Contax T compact rangefinder camera with film is a bit difficult, and I’ve read many complaints by Contax T users that they didn’t get their camera loaded properly and ended up with a roll of unexposed film.

Since I believe to have found a simple way to make sure that your Contax T is loaded properly, I’ve made this little video to demonstrate how it is done. (This is the first video of this kind that I EVER made, so I want to apologize beforehand if it lacks somewhat in contemporary qualiy standards )

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