An interesting attempt to compare film to digital in an apples to apples manner. As someone who shoots both film and digital, the argument rings strange for me. They are inherently different processes, and each tool yields different processes and different results. It’s rarely been my goal to have my digital files mimic the look […]
Film
Converting old Kodak folding and box cameras to shoot 120 film
There are countless articles online covering how to do these conversions. Most of Kodak’s older cameras fall into one of the following categories: 116/616, 122 These are larger reels, so some form of adapter/spacer is needed. This guy uses home made adapters constructed of dry wall anchors and cut up 120 reels. Its not necessary […]
Wet Plate Photography
While I don’t see trying this process myself anytime soon, I must admit it creates truly appealing images. I think I need to get back into developing roll film consistently before I take on anything close to this. I’ve got some exposed 120 roll film I’m hoping to develop later this week. My first done […]
The Draw of Film
This article is from a few years ago: musings on returning to film from digital SLRs. I can identify – not so much with the divorce part, but with the renewed draw of film. To be clear, there is still a place for using digital cameras. For me, this is typically when speed is important: […]