All posts in Colour Film

I recently picked up a few rolls of colour film that I had put through the Rolleiflex (pretty much the only film camera I’m interested in using these days). I’m always shocked at how shallow the depth of field is at wide apertures with the Rolleiflex — a function of the long focal length of…

.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 0px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } At a school playground in our neighbourhood. Rolleiflex 3.5E, expired Portra 400NC film.

Because my rate of non-baby photo-taking has slowed down to a trickle, I’ve been amusing myself by revisiting old photos in PS. This one is from November 2002 (our honeymoon!) and shows the facade of the Mikvé Israel Synagogue in Willemstad, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles — the oldest continuously operating synagogue in the Americas. Taken with…

The Rolleiflex is much more fun to use when the focus is adjusted. I’m beginning to wonder if I’ll ever want to use 35mm film again (seriously!)

My first film post in a couple of months. (It’s hard to develop and scan B&W at home with a nine-week-old in the house!) I got these rolls developed at Dwayne’s, a large lab in Kansas that is famous as the last Kodachrome shop standing. They did a decent job and the price is right…

.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 0px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Sherwood Park is a little oasis of forest in the middle of mid-town Toronto, housing a remnant of the ravine-creek-forest landscape that used to dominate the city. Unfortunately, most of the…

.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 0px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Sunny days, the Rolleiflex, decent colour negative film, and the Epson 4490 (with Epson’s own scanning software) make a great combination.

.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 0px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Rolleiflex 3.5E, expired Portra 400NC, and a couple of cushions.

.flickr-photo { border: solid 0px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 0px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Around the kitchen with a Rolleiflex and some four-years-past-date Portra 400NC.