And here we have the slightly more interesting second roll of Rollei 640 used this spring. It came out cleaner (for some reason I don’t know) from the tank, so less water staining on the scans. The subjects are not so different from the usual ones but we have new stunning locations in Tuscany – the small monastery is on the mount Cetona – and Rome – Palazzo Barberini. Oh, and WE HAVE A DOG!
Finally a new film on my blog! I bought a couple of Rollei some months ago and I thought I had to use them before summer, trying to fully benefit from that good 640 ASA sensitivity, shooting at sunset or indoors. I have to say it’s a very interesting new film, it’s not expensive, not too grainy, and with an impressive versatility. As an added bonus it’s super-flat after development, so no troubles when scanning! Regarding the pictures, well, these are my friends, my children, my guitars, my cat in various locations around Rome. There’s even a picture of me […]
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.
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 […]
Ok, let’s try an expired 3200 iso film on the streets of Naples! I’ve been quite optimistic in shooting this roll at 1600 iso because most of the “sunset” pictures are way underexposed but the results are intriguing anyway. I’ve had this poor unused Kodak film in the bag for years, at very variable room temperatures (even around 40 celsius during summer) so I could not realistically expect more than this. Oh, Naples is gorgeous but I’m sure you already know it.
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 […]
Surprise! I had another two rolls of Plus-X in the bag and (double surprise) they were in a lovely state of preservation, without the dark spots of the previous roll. Now I can really say my story with the Plus-X ends here, with these scans you see below. They also look very different from the other scans, and for an obvious reason: I developed them in a punchy Rodinal 1+25 bath, and even over-deloped a bit (like one minute and half more) so, yes, contrast and grain are quite evident. I would not say I “ruined” this classic emulsion in […]
