Film Friday this week will be a classic that we all love so dearly, and its Kodak’s Kodachrome colour positive slide film! Kodachrome has been around for a long time, as it was one of the first truly successful colour processes . The film as we know it today was first introduced in 1935, being…
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Do you like contrast? Do you like punch? Do you want to feel like one of those Japanese street photographers from the 80s and 90s? Are you shooting Ansel Adams-esque landscapes? Do you want to record farmland and vegetation from your small aircraft? Then Rollei Superpan 200 is for you. Rollei Superpan 200, as its…
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Remember the good old days, when the word Kodak was synonymous with photography? When Kodak used to throw money at events, when photo vendors would be flashing their Kodak jackets, when you used to capture your Kodak moments in your Kodak camera and get them printed at Kodak printing stations on Kodak paper? Beau was…
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Imagine yourself at Lake Garda in the summer of 1961, in your red Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider, just relaxing by the side of the road. You take your Persols off and stare off into the distance at the small boats sitting on top of the water, with the vacationing crowds visible below by the lakeside….
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Kodak T-Max 400. It’s pretty damn good. A more modern take on the oldie but a goodie that is Tri-X, it’s sharper, more contrasty and more expensive because there is more technology injected into the film base. If Tri-X is like an old Buick Roadmaster, then T-Max 400 is like the Buick Reatta (seriously, it…
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December 12th 2020. Saturday 9:00am. Vancouver – Nicole: This was one of the only blue sky days we got in December and I made the most of it! I got up to some crazy fog off my balcony and immediately thought of how perfect it was that the camera I planned on shooting that day…
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Last week we talked about pushing and pulling film. This week we’ll be talking about another fun technique you can experiment and have fun with. What the heck is cross processing? So you know how there’s colour negative and colour positive films? Colour negative films, such as Kodak Portra or Ultramax needs to be processed…
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Hello, kids! Today, we will be talking about pushing and pulling film in relation to over and underexposure. The film we will be using for today’s lesson will be Ilford’s HP5+, as it lends itself well to being pushed around like a wheelbarrow on a pumpkin patch. The ISO/ASA speed on the package of…
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It’s so gloomy and depressing these days. The pandemic is still ongoing, the weather decided to catfish us into hoping for snow, I’ve gained some pandemic weight and they discontinued my favourite 120 colour film recently. So this week’s film will perhaps help channel that dismay. Ilford Delta 3200 is their high speed, low light…
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January 11th, 2021. Saturday. 2:30pm. The Corner of Thurlow & Davie – Nicole: So as of late our camera testing has dwindled and has NOT included snacks, this is the reason for our blog’s re-naming. Firstly I blame the rain, secondly Covid-19. That being said both Meghan and myself still jumped at the chance to…
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