Time to stock up!

Bravo, Kodak!

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What a headline! Kodak phases out digital businesses, keeps film alive

That’s unheard of in this digital age. Good for them! And good for us, film shooters!

The latest Impossible Project instant colour film looks very impressive! I wonder if you still need to shade it from light when it ejects. If not, that’d be perfect!

My Cameras: Coronet Flashmaster

I found the Coronet Flashmaster at the local antique market last month and got my husband to get it for me for Christmas. It’s a simple, point-and-shoot, medium format, bakelite camera from 1950s with no settings whatsoever. I thought I’d run a test roll through it, to double as a test roll for a new batch of C41 developer/fixer that I was going to mix. The film I used was Kodak PPF 100 that expired, oh, only 12 years ago.

Obviously, I’d forgotten a lot about C41 processing after not doing any of it since last summer. The results show that many things that could go wrong during the processing did go wrong. But thanks to the crappy lens on the camera and the light leak in the top left corner, I still like some of the shots anyway. Hope you do too! :)

And thanks to this roll, the second roll of film I developed with this batch of developer/fixer this morning turned up just perfect. Can’t wait to scan and share!

A DIY Film Developer Problem

There is no dead pixel problem in film photography. Only dead fixer.

(Source: twitter.com)

Solo | Brownie Hawkeye Flash

Solo passed away today at age 25. He was one of the donkeys at the Donkey Sanctuary of Canada. I’m saddened by his passing but glad that I caught this moment in his life on film and that I have this picture to remember him by.

If you want to use Impossible Project PX680 film in a Polaroid camera designed to take SX70 film and you find shipping cost to order the pack filter from Impossible Project too crazy (like I do), the linked blog post shows you how to make a DIY pack filter using a sheet of gel filter that can be had pretty cheaply from a local source.

I’ve always wanted a Holgaroid. I’ve got a Polaroid back for my Hasselblad that I could potentially use, but I don’t really want to destroy my beloved Holga. This is an excuse for me to get another one, I guess!

Another link to another do-it-yourself light shield for the Polaroid SX70 cameras. This one is even simpler than the other one I posted last week and the material used is fabric, which should be more more durable than paper. It could also double as a camera sleeve. Very elegant.

I don’t know why I didn’t find this first when I first started looking for a tutorial. I was just searching for more tutorials when I found this as I just got the two packs of Impossible Project film I ordered in the mail today. Exciting! Will post pictures soon, assuming the SX70s I’m about to test are working great.

Bulb Exposure | Brownie Hawkeye Flash)

Just wanted to show what could be accomplished with a Brownie Hawkeye Flash on Bulb mode. It’s about a 1-minute long exposure. The film I used was probably the discontinued Kodak Portra UC (I used to shoot with this film exclusively before it became really difficult to find).

This is one of the reasons the BHF is my most favourite box camera ever. :)