How to shoot film… without using film

In 2011, I shot nearly 70 rolls of film. I love film. And I really love my Olympus OM-cameras and their fine ZUIKO primes. I also love the unique look of film and the classic DOF-control of the 135-format (with those great fast lenses from the film era). But I don’t love the amount of time, film-photography eats up. Actually, I just don’t have enough spare…

Infected with Polaroid

OMG, I knew this could happen anytime… I got infected with the Polaroid-virus and so I was in the need of a proper Polaroid camera to satisfy my new addiction with some of the awesome new films, the guys from “The Impossible Project” produce in the former Polaroid plant in Enschede, Netherlands. Yeah, I decided this very special “limited edition” of a Polaroid 600 is a good…

Berlin Calling – Part 3: shooting film is hard work!

My scanner was glowing in the dark after scanning the last frame of my recent trip to berlin! Damn, I know that shooting film causes a lot of work compared to digital and I always have fun while scanning my frames and getting them ready for the screen, but after roll no. 10 of this project my motivation began to decrease…

bokehlicious weekend

Last week was a very successful GAS-week (gear acquisition syndrome) for me! Since I jumped into film photography with my first Olympus OM-4 Ti at the end of last year, I’ve always been lusting for some special lenses that are rare to find (at least in “like new” condition). One of those high-grade lenses was definitely the ZUIKO 50mm/F1.2! Although I already owned one of the…

Berlin Calling – Part 2: the truth is analog

Summing up the digital shots of my berlin trip was quite an easy job compared to the work 23 rolls of film cause. To get this task done without ruining my marriage (scanning takes a lot of time), I divided the negatives into two blocks. Yesterday I finished digitizing the rolls of Friday (22.07.) and Saturday (23.07.)…

Street Sunday

Great! My wife Daniela decided to get herself an Olympus PEN E-PM1 (Mini) this autumn (so maybe I’ll get my E-P2 back then :-)). Of course I’m trying to gently introduce her to some photographic disciplines now. This sunday we went for a walk on Frankfurts “Zeil” to have a coffee and discover something like “soft street-photography”. But after all she’s a girl: The fun is over as soon as it…

Wide, Wider, Super Wide-Heliar

When I started into photography back in 2010, I had a cheap (kit-)zoom lens with an equiv. 28-84mm zoom range on my camera. I zoomed the crap out of the small M.ZUIKO 14-42mm/F3.5-5.6 and noticed that I rarely used the “short end” of it. When I switched to prime lenses, my results were best with the 40 & 50mm, but I didn’t even get that classic “35mm-reportage-wide-angle-thing” at…

X(-pro)periments

Today the lab called me! Finally, I got the two cross processed rolls of Ektachrome back and was very… sobered 😦

Tri-X’ing around

Because of the public-holiday tomorrow, this wednesday felt like a virtually friday and so I had time to scan some film. This time I started with a roll of KODAK Professional Tri-X 400 which I shot on the street last thursday. I’ve heard a lot of great stories about this film and even a photojournalist I met a few months ago, told me that Tri-X was…