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10
Mar 2026

Kodak Tri-X 400

I don’t have much to say about this roll of film, other than the fact that it’s a negative from 2024 that I actually scanned twice. The first time was likely around the time I realized my film scanner was truly broken. At that point, I was so frustrated that I didn’t even bother uploading the scans. Looking back at them now, they weren’t actually that bad. Two years later, I had obviously forgotten that these negatives had already been scanned, so I re-scanned them with my shiny new setup. The new setup is essentially a mask to hold the […]
10
Mar 2026

Kodak Gold 200

Aside from the usual pictures of my cat and an old car, there are a couple of projects in this roll of film. One of them is a sort of “aborted” project, as I quickly realized I wasn’t quite up to the task. My idea was to document a scene that I’m not sure will last: the ubiquitous presence of street food trucks in my hometown in Sicily. They specialize in horse meat sandwiches with a variety of condiments—mostly cheese and ketchup, though some people add oil-preserved spicy mushrooms, onions, or eggplant to make them even heartier. This year, a […]
19
Dic 2025

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 […]
17
Dic 2025

Kodak Gold 200

It seems unreal the last blog post is from June 2023, and itself a post about an old roll shot during the pandemic, and here I am writing a new post in December 2025 and yet I don’t feel like I never abandoned analog photography for a moment in my life. It’s just that I progress quite slow, I have to admit it now, probably more than I use to tell to myself. Anyways. Another Kodak Gold, why not. I think this is the one that more than any other recent film I shot has the highest percentage of out-of-focus […]
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 […]