Isn’t film lovely!
I’ve saved up a fair few of those funny light sensitive things in little metal canisters this last year and finally got round to posting them out to Genie Imaging*. One of them was just blank which I had expected, but still annoying. Fortunately the rest came back ok on a CD. It was at that moment I realised that both of my computers don’t have CD drives any more. Ahh well the office PC still does.
*Their website is awful but their processing is great.
I’m really pleased with them and that probably has nothing to do with me. The quality in the film is just sublime. It’s also amazing to see events that happened so long ago recorded like this. In fact one of the films was from my 30th which was three years ago. I’m gradually uploading them to Flickr but I’ve added a few of my favourites (so far) below. These are a mixture of two cameras – the Nikon F801 with a 50mm prime and the Lomo LC-A. Film stock was either Ilford HP5 400 for the B+W or Kodak Portra VC 160 for the colour.
One thing I was slightly surprised about was how much I liked the black and white shots. I’ve almost entirely stopped doing any digital black and white work as it never seems to fit. I always ending up thinking it looks better in colour when editing in Lightroom.
And of course my favourite shot of all…
