Tag: Nikkormat EL

  • Tummies filled, we left the restaurant after a good meal and decided to take a slow and leisurely walk back toward the hotel. It’s likely that a satisfying meal lifted our spirits a little, because when I re-scanned these negatives, I was somehow remembering that the temperatures had become a little more reasonable. Looking at…

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  • When we planned our 2024 summer vacation, we chose mid-June because, and I quote myself, “It won’t be *too* hot yet. Toronto becomes mostly unbearable in July and especially August!” It turns out that nature, as it so often does, intended to make a complete fool of me. We boarded a VIA Rail train on…

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  • The first day of my little winter vacation! A perfect time for …errands in the cold. They weren’t all errands, but after mixing up a little C-41 chemistry, I figured that it would be a good idea to get myself a little bit of Ilford XP2 Super around. It’s one of my favourites! So as…

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  • One of my little gremlin companions is that if I have not done something in a little while, the fear that I will forget how to do it and have to start all over again begins to gnaw at me. It usually seems to begin somewhere around a month, which causes me to think that…

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  • A short roll of film can make a gal take a few risks! That sounds much more serious than I intend. Particularly when it’s cold, I prefer to use 24-frame rolls to the longer 36-frame rolls of film. Aside from it being inhospitable outside, it can shift from day-to-day. So yesterday when it cleared up…

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