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So you’ve got some expired 35mm film! My first inclination is that if you’ve got some expired 35mm film – let’s shoot it. Shooting with expired film can be highly rewarding. There are however ups and downs associated with the journey, some you might expect, others not so obvious. Whatever you do though, don’t let […]
I’m a sucker for good film gear and the Pentax Espio 928 is a cracker! Before I tell you why I thnk that the Pentax Espio 928 is a cracker, I want to talk about the particular problems I have found with film. Basically this is, one camera, one film. Until you’ve shot to the […]
I first started shooting and developing film back in the 1980’s. I remember those first experiences and in particular, sitting in a cupboard loading film into a developing tank. Great fun and very nostalgic when I look back. I wish I still had access to those early negatives. This being said, I certainly wouldn’t class […]
Processing B&W film using the Jobo ATL 1000 Processing B&W film using the Jobo ATL 1000 greatly simplifies the process of film development. This short article is a personal study of my experience of using the ATL 1000 to develop B&W film. What is it? The Jobo ATL 1000 is a film processing machine (made […]
A Quick Way to Edit a 35mm Colour Negative In this article you will learn how to apply blend modes so the editing of a 35mm clour negative to create a white balanced colour positive The steps we will follow are as follows: Step 1 Develop the image to push the blacks and whites to […]
This is the second roll of film I have put through my aging Pentax KM and I’m very much more pleased with these results than for the Kentmere 400 (also an Ilford product) that I tried first. Now, that could be down to inexperience, it was the first roll of film I had developed in […]
Not being able to accurately digitise film makes it pretty difficult to work out if you actually took good pictures or not. Was the focus off, was the lighting good, was the subject matter sufficiently interesting to even bother! This is exactly the position I found myself in recently when I decided to experiment with […]
Is Ilford FP4 Plus 125 still the darling of film photography? A recent shoot using Kentmere 400 resulted in decidedly indifferent results so yesterday morning I decided to shoot and process some Ilford FP Plus 125 B&W film that I have in the fridge using the same camera as for the Kentmere but with a […]
Well, that depends on your perspective of course. You could argue that that’s it’s bloody amazing to get anything off a Kodak Gold 200 from 1997, especially since it was from an old Minolta all-weather / underwater camera and in 110 format. That’s almost 23 years sat in a drawer. On the other hand you […]
PART 2: Kentmere 400 Film | The B&W Development Process As I mentioned in PART 1, Kentmere 400 film is a part of the Ilford stable of products. It’s a low cost B&W 35mm film that often pitches up against Fomapan 400, Ilford HP5+ and Ilford FP125. Now I’ve used Ilford films in the past […]