Tag: black and white
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Black ChryslerOlympus XA, Arista Premium 4002013
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Shooting Kentmere 100
Some people say you have to get the processing juuuuust right to get the best results from Kentmere 100, a black-and-white film manufactured by the same folks who make the Ilford films. But I don’t process my own. My film is always at the mercy of whatever chemical soup my favorite processor uses. I’m willing to place some…
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Car parts on Kodak T-Max 400
I love both of Kodak’s ISO 400 black-and-white films, Tri-X and T-Max, but for different reasons: Tri-X when I want that grainy look, and T-Max when I don’t. I didn’t when I photographed the cars at May’s Mecum auction. As happy as I was to shoot Plus-X at the auction (see photos here), I was a…
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1950 Hudson Commodore
My favorite car at this year’s Mecum auction was a pale yellow 1950 Hudson Commodore convertible. I photographed it extensively on Kodak Plus-X Pan film with my Nikon F2AS and my 50mm f/2 AI Nikkor lens. Traditional cars of that time placed the body and passenger compartment atop a frame, and to enter them you had…
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Old cars on Kodak Plus-X Pan
Long ago, Kodak’s three main black-and-white films were Verichrome Pan, Plus-X Pan, and Tri-X Pan. Only Tri-X Pan is still made, albeit improved over its original 1940 formulation. Kodak discontinued Verichrome Pan in the 1990s, and Plus-X Pan in 2011. The thing I liked best about Plus-X was its rich, deep blacks. I didn’t shoot…
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Captured: Abigail
Nobody wanted Abigail, so my parents took her. It helped that she is a Lab mix; they had two Labs before her and they had come to love the breed. After their last Lab, Shadow, passed a few years ago I didn’t figure they’d get another dog due to advancing age. They didn’t either, they…
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Color film, black-and-white results
Not long ago the folks at the Film Photography Project came upon a cache of expired-since-1995 Kodak Gold 200 color film in size 620, and offered it for sale in their store. It was pricey at $14 per roll, but wanting to try a couple of my 620 cameras I bought two rolls. I shot…
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Captured: Fixing a hole
My brother flew in from Utah, where he was living, to spend last Christmas with the family. A heavy snowstorm blew in on Christmas Eve as my brother was driving over. Unsure where the curb was, and not wanting his rented car to be parked in the middle of the street in case the snowplows…
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Voigtländer Vitoret LR
I find rangefinder cameras like this Voigtländer Vitoret LR to be intensely alluring. And I think I look smart when shooting them. I go to great lengths to look smart. The 1966-1971 Vitoret LR was, by Voigtländer standards, an entry-level camera. As best as I can tell, the entire Vitoret line was meant to be a…