This one took me a couple weeks to get through. Some restaurants, some beaches, some dogs.
Tag: Film
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Photo: The neighbor’s house
The side of my neighbor’s house (2025). Nikon F100. Kodak ColorPlus. I was testing my first roll of Kodak ColorPlus film, so while walking the dog I took this snap of the side of my neighbor’s house. It’s supposed to be a throwaway, but I dig it for some reason. The more I look at it, the more I like it.
I was using the Nikon F100, so I didn’t bother to think I might have set the ISO manually on an earlier roll. Sure enough, it was set at ISO 400. ColorPlus is a 200 speed film. Whoops. I noticed my mistake halfway through the roll, but figured I’d take the opportunity to push color film for my first time. It kind if ruined the “How good is ColorPlus?” experiment, but oh well.
I scanned it using the Leica SL2 mounted on a Negative Supply rig, then inverted the scans using Negative Lab Pro in Lightroom (Classic).
As usual, the colors look weird to me. The shadows have a splash of magenta and everything looks just a little off.
And yet, I love the photo. I love the diagonal monochrome/color separation. I like the placement of the rocks and the tree. I like the air conditioner unit in the center. The single sunlit yellow flower against deep shadow. And I really love the satellite dish.
It’s fun when the throwaways work out like that.
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Roll-049 (2025) / Leica MP
Favorites from a roll of HP5 through the Leica MP / 50mm Summilux-M ASPH.
This was the first roll scanned using the Negative Supply setup. It worked really well. I’m coming around to the whole scan-using-digital-camera idea.
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It’s just that I prefer film
For the past week or so, I’ve been thinking about shelving the whole film photography thing for a while.
I have many film cameras, but that’s the fun part, not the problem. It’s the supporting cast that wears me down. There’s just too much infrastructure around film photography.
If you’ll allow me a bit of a ramble.
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