Paris memories
Finally got around to developing and scanning the images from my and my girlfriend’s trip to Paris in late February 2020 right before coronavirus hit the world. Here are both the analog and digital photos from the trip. Most pictures are taken by me, some by my girlfriend.
Pictures below were taken with Olympus OM10 - 50mm F1.7 & 35mm F2 - Kodak Portra 400
Pictures taken with Fujifilm X-Pro 1 - 23mm F1.4
A trip around the neightbourhood
One afternoon in the summer of 2019 we decided to take a walk around my neighborhood. I live just around the corner from Austrått.
Shot with the Olympus OM10 with the 50mm F1.8 and Fuji Superia 200 film.
fading in to summer // Fujifilm Color 200
Here are pictures for my seventh roll of film. June was arriving and it was time to make the garden ready for summer. I also turned 26. The pictures from my birthday were taken by my girlfriend, Guro. She surprised me with cake, gifts, and ballons after picking me up from a work trip. We were lucky to have a guided tour at Reins Kloster by my grandmother, the famous Olga Berg.
Shot with the Olympus OM10 and the 50mm F1.8. The film stock used here was Fujifilm Color 200.
Look at this cool “first of the roll” shot! The reason it’s only half is that half of the film was “burned” / exposed to light when putting the film into the camera.
17th of may with friends in black and white film
Back on 17 of May 2019 the national holiday in Norway, I shot my first roll of black and white film. The film stock I used was Ilford HP5 400 with the Olympus OM10. It was a very sunny day, and with the 400 ISO, I see now that I should have used lower ISO. Even at F16, you can still see that the pictures are way overexposed. Some of them I had to edit exposure on because of it been way overexposed.
Here are the pictures, colored ones from Fujifilm C200 later this week!
If you read this, thank you for coming to my website and looking at my photo’s! :)
easter trip to säffle, sweden
In the Easter week of 2019, my girlfriend and I decided to take a trip to an apartment my family owns in Säffle, Sweden as she hadn’t been there before. After finishing my three rolls of film I was eager to find more. I went searching in all the camera stores on our way to Sweden but was in no luck and my last bet was an old camera store in Säffle itself. At first try, there were out of stock due to its recent popularity. He only had expired film left, one from 1998 and one from 2007. So I started my walk back to the apartment when I realized that expired film is better than no film. I sprinted back to ask the staff I could buy the expired ones, but he didn’t want to sell me them. He only wanted to give them to me because he didn’t know if it would work, but I decided to try anyway and it came out amazing!
Kodak Color Plus 200 Expired 2007
The store staff gave me an old Kodak Color Plus ISO 200 expired back in 2007. After only shooting only expired film and only finding expired film, no wonder I thought there was no new film to be found. The Kodak Color Plus is a very affordable film, think about 5 dollars or 50 NOK per roll. Around half the cost of Kodak Portra 400 witch is the one most people use nowadays. I like the colors that came from this film. I need to pick up some more of the film later to see if it holds up or if it was because of the expired date.
Here are the pictures from Säffle and our return home. On the way home, I dropped my girlfriend off in Hamar, Norway for her last days of school there.
I LOVE THE GRAIN IN THESE PHOTOS! LOOKS PERFECT! :)
Roll 2 & 3 of Expired Fujifilm Superia 200
Following up my last post about my first experience with the Olympus OM10 and analog photography. Here’s the pictures from my two next rolls of expired Superia 200 shot i march of 2019.
Here is where my project started. My project changed from taking photos of the camera’s to taking analog photos. I wanted to see what was possible with this camera and the expired film. Keeping in mind from last post that i didn’t even know if any photos would come out or how they would look. In this roll i wanted to try to photograph some portraits of my friends to see how it would handle skin tones. You can also see me experimenting with F-stop to try to see the difference in sharpness and how the lens holds up.
My Brother “Ola”
Ove
When trying to understand how film works, we have to first take a lot of photos and review them with the critical eye.
You can see in the photos is that if the pictures are taken inside, you see they are very yellow if taken with artificial light. If taken in natural light, it looks alright in the daytime with correct exposure. I also see strongly that there’s a lot of magenta in some of the photos, don’t know if that’s a fault of the expired film, if I fucked up the exposure or if that’s how the stock works. I guess we’ll see in the future when I have shot some more analog film and have tried out different film stocks. (Which I already have don’t but haven’t shared and reviewed yet. so more to come! :) )
Selfie cropped with X-Pan crop 65:24. Here you can also see the strong magenta, think if shows strongly when there’s not enough light?
200 ISO in the dark, what did i expect?
First roll of film (Fuji Superia 200)
In March of 2019, I when to visit my girlfriend’s mom for the first time. After me nervously talking about me and myself, I started talking about photography and that I wanted to do a project photographing old cameras. She presided to tell me that she used to take photos with film before and that she may have a camera lying around somewhere.
After some hours she found the well preserved Olympus OM10 from the addict. The camera bag included a 50mm F1.8, a 80-200mm F4.5 a wide converter for the 50mm, a flash and alot of filters. She also had three rolls of Fujifilm Superia 200 in-store that I got to try out, the only problem was that it was expired in 2013 and I didn’t know if it would work. But after some hours of rigorously googling the subject, I found out some things that I could try to be able to get something on the film.
Fujifilm SUPERIA 200
My project started with wanting to take digital photos of the camera to showcase its cool look, but I decided to give it a try. I found out that it may need more light to get the correct exposure. I got the rolls from her so that I could try film without spending money, but only hours after going home with the camera I had found out that if I bought an adapter I could mount the OM lenses to the Fuji system. That’s the point when my collection of lenses and vintage cameras started growing massively. The website “Finn.no” or the Norwegian version of craigslist is a place you can find everything you want, sadly for my bank account.
Olympus OM10 with 50mm F1.8 (Shot with Fujifilm X-T3 and 35mm F1.4)
With the film being expired in 2013, as the total analog newbie I was, I decided to shoot all my photos at the widest aperture available F1.8 and some higher to see the difference. The Olympus OM10 has the ability to be able to adjust the aperture, but not the shutter speed. It has a built-in light meter that decides the shutter speed for you. Well here’s the shots:
Although I didn’t have a clue about what I was doing, I liked the results. In hindsight, what I should have done, was to take the photos at a half a stop higher (250-320? ISO and keep that Aperture and shutter speed the same as I would otherwise). Can you tell from the pictures that it expired or is it just me being inexperienced?
I feel like going back to shooting analog has helped me understand photography and my digital camera more than I could ever do with just shooting digital. Before shooting analog, I used Aperture priority almost 99% of the time. Now, 9 months later, I get frustrated whenever I can’t have full control.
More to come! Shot around 20 rolls of film in 2019.
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