Category: Film photography
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Tree trunks washed onshore
I was watching this photo on flickr of a tree trunk washed onshore, when I realised that I photographed several of them already, perhaps more than I wish to remember. Here are mine.
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Contax / Yashica Carl Zeiss Sonnar 135 mm f/2.8 T* on film and digital
Zeiss Sonnar 135mm is a very good lens – not on digital, though.
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Some lenses are soft in the corners – 100F and the English sea
Dealing with lenses soft in the corners
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My take on focus-shift with the Nikkor AI-S 50mm f/1.2 and the Nikon FM2n camera
My empirical solution to Nikkor 50mm f/1.2’s focus-shift issue. How to use it?
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Fuji Neopan 400 CN was designed to solve technical issues
I find it interesting that while this film was born out of a specific technical problem, nowadays it still satisfies a very specific technicality albeit a very different one. At the time, B&W chemicals were not as readily available as the C-41 process used with colour negatives: thus the original purpose of the black and white…
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C/Y lenses on Canon EOS cameras
The use of obsolete Contax / Yashica lenses on Canon EOS bodies is relatively common, but some exotic combinations of lenses and bodies are little documented and their compatibility unknown. I have now had some experience adapting two C/Y lenses on two Canon EOS bodies and I can report the results, unfortunately not enthusiastically.
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Fuji Pro160C
Differently from the Ektar 100, that produces fantastic colours without any intervention with Photoshop, I totally dislike the Fujifilm Pro160C – that I have used for this edited photo of the Fire Brigade station in Darlington. Yet, I have seen around on the internet really nice pictures taken with this film. I suspect that it…