[Analogue]
…film, just exiting, everytime you catch your camera and explore the place you are. The reason why i never converted to digital Photography…Digital is nice, for some purposes, but compared to film, a bit less thrilling. Using Film extends my experience of exploring, it sharpen and focus my view and keep me calm, as i have to take my time to create an image….cause there are only 12 shots on a Roll ;). So instead of hurrying through the Landscape it forces you to slow down and relish…
The photograph beside, a piece of film straight from the Drumscanner, no corrections has been made.
~ Film: Agfa Copex Rapid 120 and developed in E6 Process to a slide.
~ Camera: Zenza Bronica ETRSi / 4.5x6
…this page is “under construction”, as many other parts of the whole project. At irregular intervals here you will find more information about film and equipment…:)
<Style>love rough weather; grain; high contrast; false colors; refelctions…
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~ Zenza Bronica ETRSi/45mm/75mm/150mm
~ Pentax MZ3/15mm/28mm/50mm/135mm
~ NikonosV/35mm
~ Sigma SD14
~ Pentax MZ-1
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Polaroid 35mm
…Polaroid Instant slide films - 35mm. Processed with the “Autoprocessor”, sold by Polaroid. It could be the highlight of a long day outside, if you develop the film on a cozy evening, surrounded by astonished friends, wondering about the purpose of all this ancient stuff on the kitchentable.
Since these films are one of the most “athmospheric” emulsions ever, they are not made for scanning, rather than for watching with a slide projector. Especially the “Polachrome” type, you see on this page. On a Drumscanner, film usually is scanned emulsionside down. If you do this with Polachrome, the result is something like you see in this section. Lots of Moirè an Newton rings, and if you zoom in, you will see the vertical colour filter lines of this special film. The Rochester Institute of Technology has an old study online (1985) to clear up with this pain and how to scan this film without all this accidents. The biggest effect to scanquality was to face up the emulsion (oil mounted) and the right direction. My personal experience on a Drumscanner is, considering the steps above, that the use of light defocus has a huge effect to the result.
I had 3 Types in use: Polachrome (color), Polapan (b/w) and Polagraph HC (b/w).
These days it is hard to get a filmpackage for a reasonable price and they will be long expired, back to the 80´s or early 90´s. But still useable, if you know how……even today, an adventure!!
Kodak HIE - Infrared
Everyone who love to work with Film, may have considered to use Infrared Film. There were, and still are different types available. Most are Black and White. A very special and superrare ist the Kodak EIR, a color Infrared Film. I never had the chance to use it. But anyway, the Black and White ist my favorite. It definitly was the sadest moment, when Kodak stop producing it. No Film is comparable with it. It is sensible to over 900nm.
The first time i saw pictures made with it, was in the mid 90´s. They were in a photo book about Ireland by Simon Marsden. Since then the IR Virus got me. I try to find out how he filter and meter it, that was a challange in times of the early internet. It was ASA 800 with only a R8 filter. I always use this setting. So you could easily work free hand and, thanks to the wide IR Range, sitll have a good Wood-Effect. And of course, the unique Auroras in the highlights, caused by the missing Anti-halo layer of this film. A very nice film, but not with that big grain, is the Efke IR-820 Aura. But for this you need an IR-filter so it is difficult to work without a tripod, and hard to meter. I have some rolls in the freezer…One of the next experiments :)
The example you see here was an accident! I just opened the back of the camera, not in total darkness…So be careful, if you had managed to grab some rolls…