Tag: Nikkormat EL
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I’m just being dramatic. I know that I am. I could have titled this “Charlotte faces challenges scanning a re-spooled oddball specialty film that third-parties like selling to make colour films available at lower price points” or something. But my gosh, is scanning Kodak Aerocolor sometimes an exercise in frustration. Going forward, I think I’d…
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I don’t exactly remember when, but I recently saw a conversation about third-party lenses float through on Bluesky. The conversation’s general direction was that third-party lenses are more often than not just fine and are unfairly maligned. It got me thinking about my own collection and that I don’t have many third-party lenses. There are…
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For my second roll exposed for the #FP4Party, I felt that the mostly overcast (and occasionally snowy) conditions called for giving the medium-speed film a little push. Not too much, just under 2 stops, but enough to give me the flexibility needed to avoid having to open the lens’s aperture fully. It was a familiar…
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Without an adventure planned, our Saturday was mostly dedicated to running errands to ensure we had what we needed for the long weekend and in advance of my little visit to Toronto on Monday. …and as I wrote yesterday, I wanted to test a fresh batch of C-41 I mixed up so that I would…
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Would you believe that I am nearly finished with the re-scanning of photos I made during our vacation to Toronto in June 2024? Since it was the first time we had been back in town since 2019, I ended up using just over eighteen rolls of film! With our time rapidly coming to an end…