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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 […]
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 […]
Digitising Film The final solution – almost! Over the past week or two I’ve been experimenting with ways of capturing digital images directly from film negatives. I’ve been trying to do this as cheaply as possible by using as much of the gear as I have to hand to keep costs down. I’ve already created […]
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 […]