It is December, meaning the Shitty Camera Challenge has officially started! This edition of the Challenge revolves around the 1990s. By the rules, “your camera doesn’t need to be shitty this round, it just needs to be introduced between 1990-1999.”
After a short social media campaign, Ilford finally revealed something new: Kentmere Pan 100 and 400 films are now available in 120 format. Cheap, reliable and dependable film in medium format is always a good thing!
If you’d try to name a few most influential Nikon film cameras, I can bet you’d completely forget about this one – the Nikon F-801 from 1988.
Finally, the microFourThirds system got a new, much-needed super-wide-angle autofocus prime lens from a first-party manufacturer – Leica DG Summilux 9mm F1.7 Asph.
Another one bites the dust – Fujifilm just announced the global discontinuation of Fujichrome Velvia 50 slide film in 4×5″ and 8×10″ large formats, and medium format Fujicolor 160NS Professional colour negative film.
Pentax has announced the latest lens addition recently, the first D FA Limited lens in the lineup, smc Pentax-D FA 21mm F2.4 ED Limited DC WR. All good and well, much-needed addition, potentially exactly the lens Pentaxians worldwide were waiting for.
It’s time to finally pack my bags and go, nice weather, new landscapes and seascapes are waiting for me! A week of travel ahead!
So, I’m going on a vacation. A week out of town, a week filled with many photo opportunities…
After a few years of hiatus, I’ve dug up my flatbed scanner, the Canon CanoScan 8800F, the only working scanner I have that can scan medium-format film. It needed some maintenance; all four glass surfaces needed a thorough cleaning, and I had to remember how …
Despite my bold claim, it is not as bad as it seems, at least for the end-users! Nikon Zfc is a very interesting camera, it looks gorgeous, but Nikon went just a step too far replicating retro dials from mechanical film cameras and making them …
There’s not much to say about development – I have only the traces of my favourite developer, Agfa Rodinal, but I have a few litres of fresh Kodak Xtol developer, so it was pretty obvious why I chose Xtol – I had it.
We had a week to shoot a roll (or sheet) of Ilford FP4 film, and I chose 135 format roll, with a full 36 images to go through.
Seascapes through Horizon 202 panoramic camera. Kodak Vision3 250D cine film, developed in standard color-negative C41 process.
Read more“Seascapes, August 2018.”A walk through the neighbourhood on sunny Sunday in early February 2018.
Gloomy day in late autumn, a walk through Jastrebarsko, and a walk/drive through the neighbourhood in mid-November 2017.
Read more“Moody weather walk, November 2017.”Vineyards and hills in the Jastrebarsko-area countryside, early April 2017.
Are you a photographer using multiple sites for presenting your work? Do you find updating all your profiles tedious? I certainly do, so in my digging through the ‘net, I found an excellent tool for that. (Broken in 2023)
If you are using Adobe Lightroom 5 and have recently upgraded to Windows 10 (as 25 million people did), you may have seen this dreaded message while opening Lightroom, saying it can’t open its catalogue due to an “unexpected error”.
