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10
Mar 2022

Kentmere 100

Another batch of scans sitting on my hard drive since one year ago, maybe it’s a good time to let them go. Looking at these pictures it seems nothing changed much during this year, we are still planning picnics during the weekends, with mostly the same friends, doing the same things, just hanging out in different green areas of Rome. There’s something different as well, actually: most of these pictures are in decent focus while in more recent times it’s quite the opposite, they’re mostly out of focus. This park is called La Cervelletta, by the way.
10
Mar 2022

Kentmere 400

Here we go with a roll almost entirely shot in Naples last October, developed quite steadily and buried in the hard drive because I don’t know why. This was our first family trip in Naples (the city of) but you can find a blog post about a pre-pandemic trip to Pompei scrolling down the blog. So, as it happens frequently during family trips, I just go around with the camera on my neck, thinking mostly about what to eat, what to drink, where to go etc. and absolutely not thinking about shooting my pictures decently – given that I’m supposed […]
20
Ott 2021

Kentmere 400

Well, this is kinda cliché but it is true: I totally forgot this roll last summer, actually with another still undeveloped roll, so when I found it I was really unable to recall what pictures were inside it. It turned out it was just another typical summer roll, no surprises, no tears of joy, no miracles. But it has to be noted that when I go out with an analog camera, that’s usually the only camera on my neck that day, so (with the obvious exception that probably I have some cellphone-generated images of the same day buried on a […]
10
Feb 2021

Kentmere 100@200

It’s inusual for me to push film but this time I felt it was safer to begin the roll with a more versatile setting, just in case. And it’s been a good choice because the day at the beach wasn’t really sunny, but most of all because I’m generally more comfortable shooting at 1/250 and above. 100 ASA is’nt really flexible enough for handling heavy old cameras like my Yashica FR1 in a not-so-sunny day. Another reason to be happy is that Kentmere 100 seems to appreciate a lot to be pushed to 200: it does produce a very fine […]
30
Mar 2020

Kentmere 400

Almost everything shot in Rome, this time, between December and January, with a couple of snowy pictures from Potenza. I am obviously and totally in love with this picture above, that’s been semi-staged on the fly. I realized the youngsters of today they don’t know how to use a public phone, so I asked my daughter and her friend to stay inside and pretend to use it until I was able to put the scene in my frame. This things are slowly disappearing so it’s more difficult to find a public phone on the streets by now. I can’t even […]
29
Ott 2019

Kentmere PAN 400

One of the cheapest – if not The Cheapest – black and white film you can buy nowadays, that’s the Kentmere 400, introduced in 2009 by Harman “as a lower priced brand to their Ilford offer to compete in the US market” (thanks Wikipedia!). I have no instrument to compare Kentmere 400 to Ilford HP5+ so let’s assume that this is a completely different emulsion, even if it’s a just a rebranded HP5+. So, what’s interesting here? What a silly question, obviously the only interesting thing is the donkeys! They are so cute!