Lomography Color 100 – a brief review

I haven’t shot a roll of Lomography Color 100 film in almost 2 years, but I don’t really know why. In going back through my archives of it this week, reworking some shots with my new negative conversion process, and better understanding of producing more film-like color, I’ve found it to be easy to work …

at work with the Petzval

Petzval Week Season 3, episode 2: at to work with the Petzval Just a couple of shots of the vines that grow on the walls of the little courtyard thing in the basement of the nondescript office park where I currently work. We’ll be moving soon to a new office, so enjoy the views of this …

coming home with the Petzval

Petzval Week Season 3, episode 3: driving Ms. Petzval From the current office (that is not expected to last much longer) to the current home (which is… longer, at least, than the office, which we’ll be moving from he week after next, if all goes according to plan) there are about 73 routes I could …

Steet Photography-ish with the Petzval

Petzval Week Season 3, episode 4 The city is working on making the street corners wheelchair-friendly all up and down Highway 161. Allah knows why. Sure, there’s a train station nearby, and there are a bunch of office parks and light industrial and shopping around, but there are no sidewalks to connect the corners… Cities …

Ricoh 35ZF and Kodak HD 400

Once upon a time, I had a surfeit of color negative film: 2-5 rolls each of multiple 100, 200, and 400 variants from multiple manufacturers/re-rollers, but after shooting film almost exclusively for more than a year, that supply dwindled to dangerously low levels, and as of January 1, 2016 I had one roll each of …

Fun with Flare

Petzval Week Behind the scenes: Fun with Flare Quite accidentally, I ended up with a couple of shots that demonstrate the flare characteristics of the Petzval on film (aka full frame). This, of course, is something most competent lens testers would do as a matter of course. But I’m not a lens tester: I’m a …