I’ve completed my 52 rolls project, shooting a roll of a film a week for the whole year. I actually ended up shooting 59 rolls of film, a few were skipped from posting due to poor quality or just outright fail. It was a fun project, I’m glad I did. First some stats: Camera Nikon […]
The final week of my 52 rolls project, posting a roll of film a week for 52 weeks. The last roll is a roll of Kodak Ektar shot on the Konica Hexar AF. The Hexar is a great little camera, the film equivalent of the Fuji X100 series. Shots taken on: Konica Hexar AF, Hexar […]
Roll #57 is on the penultimate week to my 52 rolls project, since I’m right down to the end and ending at around 60 total rolls, I can pick and choose a little the last ones to post. I have a few rolls I’ve shot for some series I’m putting together, so skipping to this […]
Roll 53 is a roll of JCH Streetpan taken with my Nikon FM2. A set of shots from a couple of hikes to Lost Lake in Whistler, British Columbia. The weather was a bit rainy and cold, but it didn’t stop a couple from jumping in. We were just standing there taking a few shots […]
Roll 52 is a roll of Kodak Portra shot on a Contax G2. The roll was one of several I shot up in Whistler Canada for our companies annual meetup, see Grand Meetup 2016 for the full series. Technically this is the 52nd roll on the year, however not the 52nd week since I skipped […]
Roll 51 is another roll of Kodak Portra shot on the Contax G2. The astute observer will notice another roll got skipped. Roll #50 was a bit of a mess, it was shot with a test camera that needed serious adjustment, nothing was in focus and maybe only half-exposed properly. Instead here’s a nice consistent […]
Roll 49 is a roll of Kodak Portra shot on the Contax G2, of all the different films and camera shot throughout the project, this might be my favorite combination. The Contax G2 is a rangefinder camera with autofocus and autoexposure, so operates similar to a full SLR, in a slightly more compact form. Shots […]
Roll 48 is a roll of Fuji Natura 1600, which turned out very muddy and not that interesting. I shot the film previously in Roll 14 with much better results. Even though its 1600, looks like it really wants a lot of light to make good exposures. The first few shots of the roll were […]
Roll 47 is a roll of Kodak Portra shot on a Contax G2. The Contax is a wonderful camera with a fantastic Zeiss lens system. I think most of the final batches of photos to close out the 52 rolls project will be from this camera. Shots of a luxury apartment complex being built in […]
Roll 46 is a roll of JCH Streetpan shot with a Contax lens on the Yashica FR-1. My previous shots with the Yashica were a bit spotty which I blamed the lens for, after looking at this roll I think it might be the photographer. For this roll I didn’t use the camera meter but […]
Roll 45 is a roll of Kodak Portra shot on a Fujifilm Klasse. The Klasse is a pretty sophisticated point-and-shoot camera with a high quality fixed lens. I quite like this camera but it’s a bit too expensive for what it is, and in my camera reduction mode I’ve already sold it off. The Klasse […]
Roll 44 is once again a roll of Kodak Portra shot on Nikon FM2n. I skipped roll 43 which was fairly mediocre, part of some film camera tests, not all tests pass. A set of shots from a few series I’m working on around the change in the Bay Area, including lots of construction and […]
Roll 42 is a roll of Kodak Portra shot on a Nikon FM2n. The roll was supplemental shots for my Silicon Valley project taken overlooking the salt flats in Redwood City, and Moffett Field in Mountain View. Shots taken on: Nikon FM2n, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8, Kodak Portra 400 Developed and scanned by Little Film Lab
Roll 41 is a roll of Kodak Portra shot on a Nikon FM2n, which I just noticed is the first roll I’ve shot on this camera this series, which probably means I miss labeled something at some point. Unlike the last few rolls, I’m pretty happy how these turned out, a Nikon manual camera with […]
Roll 40 is a roll of Kodak Portra shot with a Olympus Trip 35, a fun camera see my review here. You probably didn’t notice, but I skipped Roll 39, it was terrible, so there will be a slight discontinuity in the numbering but don’t be concerned there will still be a weekly post. By […]
Roll 37 is one of my more disappointing rolls from the series. It is a roll of Ilford HP5 shot on the Bronica ETRSi. I’m not sure if it’s the subject, film, camera, or what but I don’t really like anything coming off this roll, for whatever reason I’m just not feeling them. Shots taken […]
Roll 36 was shot at the golf course at Half Moon Bay. My wife was at the spa getting a massage, I was out walking and taking photos; each with our own therapy and relaxtion. Shots taken on: Olympus Trip 35, Zuiko 40mm f/2.8, Kodak Portra 400 Developed and scanned by Little Film Lab
Roll 35 in my 52 rolls project is a roll of the new film JCH Streetpan, created by Bellamy Hunt, aka JapanCameraHunter. It is far more common for a film to be discontinued than a new emulsion started, read his story about starting his own film brand. I’ve already posted and written about the camera […]
Roll 34 in my 52 rolls project is a roll of black and white film. Surprisingly, I haven’t shot any black and white in many many years; it was all I shot when I first started. I’m training for a half-marathon in October and started working on improving my speed at the local high school […]
Roll 33 is a roll of Kodak Portra shot on the Olympus Trip 35. The little camera fits easily in a coat pocket which makes it no problem taking with you anywhere. The camera practically sings “Take me out to the ball game…” Shots taken on: Olympus Trip 35, Zuiko 40mm f/2.8, Kodak Portra 400 […]
Roll 32 is another roll of Kodak Portra shot on the Olympus Trip 35, see more about this wonderful little camera from Roll 32 last week. Shots taken on: Olympus Trip 35, Zuiko 40mm f/2.8, Kodak Portra 400 Developed and scanned by Little Film Lab
Roll 31 in my 52 rolls project was shot on an Olympus Trip 35 camera, it is a pretty fun cheap little camera. The Trip-35 was made in the 60’s and 70’s as a small portable travel camera. It only has two shutter speeds, four focus distances, and an aperture priority mode. A bonus, it […]
Roll 30 is another roll from my homemade pinhole, shot at the Golden Gate National Cemetery trying to capture flags in the wind. I’ve gone there before with that intent but that time ended up with this movie. Shots taken on: Vivitar Ultra, Pinhole, Kodak Portra 160 Developed and scanned by The FIND Lab
Roll 29 is a roll from my homemade pinhole I wrote about last week, took it out on a trip to our farmer’s market. Shots taken on: Vivitar Ultra, Pinhole, Kodak Portra 160 Developed and scanned by The FIND Lab
Roll 28 in my 52 rolls project was shot on a homemade pinhole camera. I built the camera using a cheap Vivitar Ultra camera, which is a tiny step up from a disposable camera. I removed the lens and added a pinhole punched out of a brass shim and created a custom cardboard slider for […]
Roll 27 is another roll taking portraits of the kids after playing around with double exposures I posted last week. It was an impromptu session, but still probably should’ve combed their hair before hand. Shots taken on: Bronica ETRSi, Zenzanon 75mm f/2.8, Kodak Portra 400 Developed and scanned by The FIND Lab
Roll #26, half-way there. This roll I tried my hand at in-camera double exposures, they are a bit tricky to layer and look interesting. I thought getting the exposure right would be the hard part, but easy enough to just half two exposures and it mostly comes out right. A few turned out underexposed, the […]
Shots taken on: Bronica ETRSi, Zenzanon 75mm f/2.8, Kodak Portra 400 Developed and scanned by The FIND Lab
Shots taken on: Bronica ETRSi, Zenzanon 75mm f/2.8, Kodak Portra 400 Developed and scanned by The FIND Lab
The College of San Mateo has an intersting Planetarium which I spent a roll of film trying to capture, it was 120 film, so just 15 shots per roll. Most ended up looking pretty similar, I preferred the shots with someone in them. Shots taken on: Bronica ETRSi, Zenzanon 75mm f/2.8, Kodak Portra 400 Developed […]
Shots taken on: Bronica ETRSi, Zenzanon 75mm f/2.8, Kodak Portra 400 Developed and scanned by The FIND Lab
Shots taken on: Bronica ETRSi, Zenzanon 75mm f/2.8, Kodak Portra 400 Developed and scanned by The FIND Lab