Scanning my first medium format negatives
For a while, I have been trying to learn how to scan my negatives. After picking up my first 120mm medium format camera, the Mamiya M645 with the 80mm F2.8 lens, I wanted to scan my negatives to get the most out of them.
For months I have tried to scan them with little to no luck. My flatbed scanner in the CanoScan 9000F Mark II. This scanner I got from finn.no for cheap (800NOK). I started with looking into software to this, which wasn’t as easy as it seemed like the original software from canon was impossible to download. So after a lot of google searching, I stumbled onto the software Vuescan. This seemed to be my saving grace, but the quality was shit if you ask me. I tried to scan as negatives in the software and positive to convert with negative lab pro in Adobe Lightroom. After trying this for several days, I couldn’t say I was too happy.
A couple of weeks later I decided to try scanning again after finding the software Silverfast. And this was finally the quality I was looking for. After a lot of twerking in the software, exporting to TIFF and editing in Lightroom.
Heres the results of early morning scans today.
My first 120mm Portrait
From Amsterdam with love
In the month of September, my girlfriend and I decided to travel to Amsterdam. This was our first trip with the Olympus Mju 1 and testing the Kodak Portra 400 that everyone is talking about. It delivered for sure, might be some of my favorite photos ever, but it might be from my strong feeling from this amazing city. I really love it here. I also got the chance to play with a bit of street style photography, which was definitely way out of my comfort zone.
We also brought our trusting fuji cameras as well as the film camera. I am still experimenting with film and don’t 100% trust that the photos will come out as I want them. Also if I want to print something, it’s just easier with my fuji right now, maybe in the future, when I know more about darkroom, ill be able to make awesome prints. I’ll post the digital photos we took underneath the analog photos.
Photos below are taken with the point and shoot camera Olympus Mju 1 and two rolls of Kodak Portra 400 speed analog film.
And now comes the digital photos. The camera we used was the Fujifilm X-Pro 3 and the X-E1. My girlfriend used the 18mm F2 (some of the photos are her’s) and i used the 18-55mm Zoom lens as i wanted to shoot in tele for the architecture.
Oktoberfest in Styrn
Pictures from when Guro and I when to Oktober fest in Stryn, Norway. Sadly, I didn’t take any pictures from the actual party... But we had a blast driving around and looking at Norway’s stunning landscape. This all happened over a weekend, drown down on Friday after work. Party on Friday night, daytime on Saturday we drow around, Saturday night we partied and on Sunday we drow home via Geirangerfjorden and Trollstigen. As I had never been there myself, I had a blast seen the nature I live just a few hours from.
All photos were shot on my Olympus Mju 1 when Ilford HP5 and Kodak Ektar 100 film stocks. A lot of the black and white photos didn’t turn out as it was shot at night on 400 ISO. Here are the best photos for the weekend
may weekend on fujifilm C200 analog film
Here are some 35mm film photographs I took back in May of 2019.
The pictures were taken from a trip to Trondheim. We went to Plantasjen to get some plants for my garden project, we headed over to bakklandet for a walk and ended up at a pizza restaurant at “Solsiden”. Amazing pizza, don't remember the name of the restaurant tho. Bakklanded is such an amazing part of Trondheim! I would love to live there. In the afternoon we headed to Rissa for a small visit with my family and to get some pictures of my sister. The following day, we headed home to start planting the plants we bought at Plantasjen.
All pictures are taken on the Olympus OM10 with the 50mm F1.8. As stated in the headline, the filmstock used was Fujifilm C200. This film stock is known for its strong green’s, You can see it in the pictures that the greens show through.
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