Double-X 200

When a roll of film stays in the camera for a very long time, like in this case, the experience of reviewing the images is always quite amazing. It’s not like scrolling through your Google Photos app, where there are no gaps.

Here, you can find yourself jumping from a picnic in late winter-ish fashion to a climbing session in summer, then to Sicily for a tense meeting between a winery owner and her consultants in the middle of a vineyard, and finally back to Rome in winter again to finish the roll in the same spot where it was started. An entire year in a bunch of pictures and huge gaps in between, of course.

Speaking of the film, it’s a lovely Kodak Double X respooled in 35mm film canisters by a small company that rebrands it as Double-X 200. As usually happens, I waited too long before shooting all the exposures and even more before developing the film at home, so I suppose the grain could’ve been much less pronounced than what you see. My bad.

This is one of those cases where I’m not completely unsatisfied with my job. I think there are some nice pictures here