Monochrome in the Gower
I’ve just paid for some film to be developed at Exposure Film Lab – three colour Kodak Gold 120 film rolls with my Pentax 645N and one Kentmere PAN 400 taken with my Canon EOS 300. I am excited to get these back and I am trying to piece together in my mind which moments…
The timeless enjoyment from film
This blog started out as a journey with my Pentax 645N but I have needed to add photos taken with my Canon EOS 300 to vary the posts and add to the numbers. Anyone reading this will be fully aware of the added expense in film photography and I have not yet found a system…
New lens for my first camera
I started this blog to share my journey with my Pentax 645N medium format film camera. But the journey to the Pentax was through nearly twenty or so years with various digital SLR Canons (350D, 50D and the 7D) preceded by my first camera, a Canon EOS 300… I’ve been using it on and off…
Deeper and deeper…
I’ve just received 8 rolls back from Exposure Film Lab. Excitement is one word for it. This was the largest collection I have sent. I shot nearly 6 rolls on our recent cruise to the deep and stunning fjords of Norway through my two film cameras – my Pentax 645N and my Canon EOS 300,…
La Trinité-sur-mer
This is one of our favourite places. We occasionally holiday in this part of France (see previous post of the Alignments near Carnac). We always drop in to La Trinité for a coffee and a stroll along the harbour. I never really make enough time to spend time with my Pentax 645N as it’s usually…
Time to try Black and White film?
This is one of several thousand stones (menhirs) in the alignments near Carnac in France. It was a beautiful evening and the Kodak Gold really adds to the warmth of the shot. I think this might be one for the garden room wall. There’s a lot of structure and contrast in this shot and I…
Some photos take a while…
I had another look through my recent photos taken with my Pentax 645N and decided that I like this photo more than my first impression. It has grown on me. I can imagine it enlarged and printed out as a poster with a frame. I have been tidying up our garden room today and decided…
French Market, Saumur
I think I like street photography. The Pentax 645N is an unwieldy thing for such photography but these two shots seem to have captured a brief moment in time and the subjects are seemingly unaware of my focus on them. The light is good and the film has given the shots a timeless quality that…
It’s been a while…
You have to make room in your finances for film photography. Sadly, things have been a bit tight recently, for obvious reasons, which is why I haven’t posted for a while. Despite the impending doom of a likely increased mortgage, petrol has dropped and the energy companies keep giving me money back so I bit…
Family time
As I find my way with film photography, particularly of the medium format variety, it seems it will suit me to use my Pentax 645 to capture those special moments. For me, it will be recording family time in the special way that a digital camera cannot compete. I am delighted with these lockdown and…
#SheldonianTheatre viewed from the #BridgeofSighs
I grabbed this on a recent visit to Hertford College, Oxford University. In tricky lighting conditions, noise is virtually non-existent, thanks to the large exposure area of the 645 Medium Format Camera and the wonderful Kodak Porta 400 film. I like this shot – it has given me an idea for a study of my…
Sunday Sun on Kodak #Portra400
While the weather in the UK continues to give us little to be cheerful about, I thought I would share an image to brighten your day and perhaps get you thinking about your summer holiday plans. I took this with my Canon EOS 300 last summer. It was this camera that started me on my…
Medium format film has so much depth
My friend doesn’t like this shot but I love it. I am normally really self-critical of the photos I take but my Pentax 645 is beginning to change all that. The digital scans are so much more natural and flattering than anything that I have seen digital do. While you are here, check out: www.bridgeneglin.com . All…
9 Reasons to buy a Pentax 645N
I have been experimenting with my Pentax for a few weeks now and as I have written in a previous post, I am hooked. Here are my current arguments for taking the plunge into medium format film with a Pentax 645. I hope I am convincing. As I continue to use and enjoy my Pentax…
It used to be a numbers game…
This new Pentax of mine has made me think about my craft. Now I see light, I pose a shot in my own mind, I set it up, point the camera, look at the scene through the viewfinder, check there is nothing ugly in the background, focus and take the shot. Simples. Two poses. Two…
My first 120 film returns
I don’t know what to say. In comparison to my Canon 35mm film camera, the quality is, well, gobsmacking! And the files are smaller by a few megabytes too – more on that in another post. But for now, I am drinking in that bokeh and adoring the lack of noise and artifacts in this…
Patience rewarded
They are here. My first set of scanned negatives from Exposure Film Lab delivered by WeTransfer.com. True to form, film kept my patience in check, again. I think the new year has been a busy time for Exposure and I had to chase my scans up but to be fair they were working close to…
Pentax 645N on its way…
So here it is: my Pentax 645N with SMC Pentax FA 75mm f2.8 lens. Well it’s not in my hands in the UK yet but it has been dispatched this morning and I am like a kid waiting for Christmas all over again! I paid $1034 including postage so about £790. (I’ll have to pay…
dan on film 