Enter the Kodak Pro Image 100

Back around the time I picked up the Kodak HD 400, I snagged a 5 roll pack of recently expired Kodak Pro Image 100…

In short, despite the dramatic convex curl to the negatives, this is some of the best film I’ve used: great color, great skin tones, very low grain, just an absolute pleasure, and I’m very tempted to snag a decent quantity more and put it in the freezer for a project or something. It’s really that good.* Continue reading “Enter the Kodak Pro Image 100”

At the Arboretum with some HD 400

After my initial disappointment with the graininess I found in that first roll of HD 400, I decided to try to shoot through the rest of it as fast as possible, so when Hana and I decided to take a trip to the Dallas Arboretum, I grabbed a roll to refill the FG in case I ended up shooting through the first roll of Compania Imago-rolled Rollei CN 200 that I mentioned earlier this week.

At first glance, I thought it turned out less grainy than my first roll, but looking again now, I think the subjects just disguised the grain some.
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At the Arboretum with Compania Imago’s Rollei CN 200

On day two of our excursions during Spring Break, Hana and I went to the Dallas Arboretum to catch the Spring blooms. Once again, the weather was lovely, and we had a nice time walking around and admiring the flowers and trees.

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Staycation with Compania Imago’s Rollei CN 200

I had 5 days of rollover vacation that needed to be used before the end of Q1, so I took Spring Break off with Hana, and shot through loads of film. I’m very behind processing any of it, let alone sharing it, so bear with me for a bit.

It was good to get away from work for a bit, for sure, and really nice to spend some quality time with the Hanabibti. Continue reading “Staycation with Compania Imago’s Rollei CN 200”

Untitled

It’s my birthday today, and I had a stack of pictures all ready to share, but I was looking at them again and I realized that there was only one really worth sharing, and then I realized that my monitor calibration was off, and that the HD 400 needed a more thorough adjustment than I’d given it, so I ended up with two, and I can’t decide which I prefer…

Either way, though, pretty, huh. Continue reading “Untitled”

a couple of street portraits

Insofar as there’s rarely anyone on the streets in my neighborhood, and insofar as they’re my neighbors and so I’m not sure I’d photograph them if they were, not without their knowledge and implicit consent, anyway. So these are portraits of the streets around here… Continue reading “a couple of street portraits”

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 Lomo Color 100, Porta 160, and Porta 400, plus a couple of rolls each of some discontinued films (Kono Kolorit 400, Lomography Cine 200, Rollei Digibase CN200 Pro) that I wanted to save…

It didn’t take me long to shoot through the readily available, mass-produced stuff.

My first thought was to put in a film order from B&H, but their Labor policies give me pause, and I don’t think I’ll be contributing any of my hard earned money to their business until they manage to get their racist hiring and promotion practices straightened out.

But I digress.

One day, while listening to the Film Photography Podcast, I got a bit of a wild hair and decided to check eBay for some expired film, and after maybe a half hour of research ordered up 6 rolls Kodak HD 400 (expired 11/2015) and 5 rolls of Kodak ProImage 100 (expired 11/2015).

The film came in just in time, and I loaded a roll of the HD400 into the Ricoh 35 ZF, thinking that between the light leaks on the Ricoh and the unknown condition of the HD400, I might get some interesting results…

baby peach tree in bloom

 

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