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
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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 Parsons: “Try anything once.” The only drawback at the moment is that my Yashica is denying operation, some electronics failure I guess. I will either have to take it apart or have it taken apart. Maybe I can fix it myself, but if not, it’s going to be expensive … So, no shooting b&w film at the moment. (You can’t use a Zeiss lens on b&w film. Seriously. You can’t.) 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 roll of Velvia 50, which I will use some time when I feel I’m going to shoot something worthy of its magnificence. For the time being, take a look at my pictures taken with Velvia 50 on flickr.  Click to see all my pictures tagged "fujichrome velvia 50" on flickr 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″!) 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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September 6th, 2011, 7:43 pm | 
