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

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.)

August 14th, 2011, 10:21 am | , , | Archived | Leave a comment |

Picture of the day | August 13th, 2011

A rosebud flower. I love the colour of these!

Olympus E-P1 + Lumix 20/1.7 @ f/1.7, 1/3200 sec, ISO 200

August 14th, 2011, 9:50 am | , | Archived | Leave a comment |

Some impressions with Velvia 50

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

August 10th, 2011, 4:05 pm | , | Archived | Leave a comment |

Kodak Elite Chrome = ♥

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”!)

August 8th, 2011, 7:42 am | , | Archived | 3 comments |

Site statistics: most searched keywords

I’ve got a plugin for my WordPress installation that records all the traffic going through my website. One feature is that it records the keywords by which Google searches are redirected to my website. Here are the current top five keywords as of today, August 5th, 2011:

  1. “leica x2” — 314 redirects
  2. “35/1.2 version ii asph nokton” — 119 redirects
  3. “efixmedia” — 112 redirects
  4. “helios multifinder” — 92 redirects
  5. “pentax 25 1.4” — 85 redirects

Wow! 314 people looking searching “leica x2” were redirected to my site, and that because of one single April fool’s prank post I made this year … Obviously, the Leica X2 is in high demand already!

Also interesting is that so many people seem to be looking for that crappy Helios Multifinder. Sorry, for using that word, but it really is crappy. So don’t bother looking for it …

EDIT: To put things into perspective, the redirects for “leica x2” are since April this year. The redirects for “helios multifinder” are since early last year.

August 5th, 2011, 10:25 pm | | Archived | Leave a comment |
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