Easter on the farm
Pictures from our easter trip to the cabin/farm in late April. Brought with us my closes friends as it was still Covid-19 times.
Pictures, were taken with Olympus Stylus Mju I. The Film I used, was Ilford HP5 400 and Kodak Gold 200.
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
Christmas on Kodak Portra 400
Pictures from a roll of kodak portra 400 shot with the Olympus mju 1
Weekend trip to "Borgen", Rissa
A weekend trip to our cabin in Rissa. It’s my mother’s childhood home. On this trip I’m testing my new point and shoot film camera, Olympus Mju I. It got a 35mm F3.5 lens, I’ll write a review of it later with sample pictures and my thoughts.
I shot some of the pictures on Fuji Superia 200 (the last ones), but I also had the chance to test a new film stock, Kodak Colorplus 200, which is supposed to be good for skin color. that made me want to test out some portraits of my family. See if you can spot the different film stocks, which is which? Comment down below. See the photos by scrolling further down.
There are also pictures from our way home on a visit to my girlfriend’s parents’ house and snapped some photos of the cat that actually a small tiger. When you see the same picture more than ones, that’s me testing flash vs no flash to see what’s best.
Some pictures are also taken by my girlfriend, Guro. Check out her blog.
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! :)
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