The Film Chronicles: Ilford XP2

Today I picked up the prints and scans of that roll of XP2 I was shooting with my Yashica Electro 35 GT last month – and I’m already in love with that film! It’s got great tonal range, and is incredibly versatile. You can shoot it anywhere between 200 and 800 ISO without having to adjust the processing, and you can push it below or beyond anywhere from 50 to 3200. I didn’t try to do so, but I did have some over- and underexposed shots that turned out perfectly. I’m going to get more XP2 as soon as I shot the one roll of HP5 I’ve currently loaded into my camera, and then I’m going to deliberately under- or overexpose it depending on the lighting situation and see how the shots turn out.

But first, here are a couple of lab scans from this roll, processed in Lightroom.

"Curiosity" | Yashica Electro 35 GT + Ilford XP2

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First batch of scans from my 35 GT

Okay, here they are! It took me a little longer than intended until I finally got to scanning some of the pictures I took with my recently acquired Yashica Electro 35 GT rangefinder film camera, but now I finally got my ass up and scanned the pictures I liked best. All were scanned directly from 13 x 18 (5 x 7) prints with 600 dpi and post-processed in Lightroom 3 beta 2. The film used was a FujiFilm Superia X-TRA 400.

At the cathedral of Cologne, Germany | Yashica Electro 35 GT + FujiFilm Superia X-TRA 400

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The Impossible Project present new instant films

Good news for users and fans of vintage instant film cameras: The Impossible Project today finally presented their first instant black-and-white films, the PX100 (for Polaroid SX-70 cameras) and PX600 (for Polaroid 600 cameras). The “first flush” of films will start shipping this month, new color films will be released in summer.

Read the full news at Amateur Photographer (English) and photoscala (German).

P.S.: Impossible still have stocks of original Polaroid film available at their shop!