Recent content by FruitFlakes

Rolleiflex 3.5F, Portra 400, handprint

Honestly I was as surprised as you are. I'd probably use the UWA more if I was focusing more on architecture but for general street/travel stuff I find that 24mm is the widest I like to go. The only time I recall actually switching to the UWA on my iPhone was to film how hilariously small my...

I just got back from Japan and I brought the following (broad sketches since actual bodies don’t matter): 2x Bodies, a 28mm and a 50mm on each 1x Medium Format TLR (6x6), 75mm lens which works out as about 40mm ~50 rolls of film for the above An iPhone 17 Pro for video and for tele work. I...

I'll be in Japan at the end of next month/early Oct so hopefully I can find a IV there. Would be a great upgrade from my original GR (still going strong btw), and I'd finally be able to use the cases I have for my GRD3 (also still going strong) which I bought on the classifieds here about 13...

I do lots of darkroom printing these days (colour and b/w) sometimes it takes the best part of a day to get a print just right. It’s quite quick/easy to get most of the way there but it’s the finer adjustments that take ages.

I could but I’d rather go through the stuff I have stockpiled especially since it’s easy to get a handcheck flying out of Heathrow these days. The weight isn’t a big concern for me anyway, just a minor annoyance.

They'll have different sensor corrosion patterns since they're M9s ;) Makes sense, your wide + tele choices are just out of the ranges that the Tri-Elmars give you. I'm currently on a two week trip in the US, my setup is 2x Film M bodies (one for b/w, one for colour), 28/50mm lenses, and a...

100% this. Just photograph what makes you go 'Yes!'

If you're happy with the scans then don't worry. I just don't consider Noritsu scans in general to be a substitute for not getting the negs back. You're just too locked in and reliant on whoever is operating the scanner that day. The scanners I mentioned above are really good quality, but...

I had a black Tachihara a few years ago and to be honest I didn't really like using larger shuttered lenses on it. Wasn't stable enough since the bellows and focusing rack were pretty much at their limits with the lenses I had (a 300mm and a 240mm). Its happy spot was with Copal 0/1 shutters.

Personally I wouldn't consider standard lab scans to be a proper backup of a negative. It'd have to be a decent camera scan or something out of a Coolscan/Flextight/Heidelberg for me to consider it a file with the requisite flexibility and tonality you get with a negative.

For times when I'm shooting a lot of film I ask my lab to make stickers (Date/My Name/Project Name) for each roll so I can pair them with contact sheets. As for knowing exactly which camera took what picture, I just remember really -- some of my cameras have unique film gates (for example my...

Passing on various XPans/Leica M6s (and Leica lenses)/premium 35mm point and shoots. Shouldn't have let go of my Epson RD1 as well but 6mp was never going to be enough for my main digi if I wanted to shoot professionally. I could argue I never needed a higher MP digi in the first place as I'm...

https://www.bayeux.co.uk/kodak-lvt/ You can go up to 10x8" if you'd like.