Another picture of a night out in Rockbar Bauhaus, 六本木
A highly recommended place when you are in the mood for live rock music and find yourself in Tokyo.
🎞️ Ilford HP5+
📷 Pentax ME
Developed with Ilford DD-X
I had to double-check my notes on this one - f/2.9 with a 75mm lens on a scale-focus medium format camera shouldn't be this sharp. Sure, the corners are a bit weird, but still... not too shabby.
Also, I've wanted to photograph this abandoned tunnel for a long time. Finally found myself with the right conditions and with the right footwear to do a bit of casual trespassing. Well worth the wait.
The nice thing about SF / Oakland / LA is absolutely no one is surprised by people walking around with very old film cameras. Many will even stop to ask ‘is this X model?’ Or ‘what film are you shooting’?
Film is so, so, so normal here (and there are lots of facilities, events, groups..)
Literally one time I was sitting outside a cafe watching YouTube and trying to load a A12 back and some person walked by and was like, I can show you if you like haha
someone saw my camera in the tray and was like, is that film? lemme hand check the film for you. what film are you shooting? where did you get the waist level finder? i really want one too.
Late last year, I ran a small project with a nonprofit in San Francisco. We gave out instant film cameras (color and black and white) to 5 people who were either unhoused or who lived nearby in one of the 'SROs'. We did a tiny, tiny exhibition.
I'm still working to figure out how to make this a more regular thing, and how to show their work, because they have such amazing stories to tell.
Good news is that it’s going to rain most of the week, and I have a ton of film. :-) Nikon F3HP, Ansco Supreme (expired 1958), HC-110 1:90 for 18 minutes, agitated every three.
Image of the day is Introspection, an in-camera double exposure on film.
Back in the late fall, Louka and I worked on a Photosynthesis session that had a good number of successful "leaf" images. These are probably my favourite leaf images since I started doing them. It's still a fraught process, with frequent failures as I struggle to balance the exposures of the leaf and the model. But I'll be back at it, now that it's the spring and there are leaves to work with again.
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Dev and scan for 7 rolls of film is US$150 where I live.
With my Bellini chemicals, and scanning setup at Photolaundry where I get a Fuji frontier scanner by the hour, it costs $4-5 per roll (excluding my time, but I actually do this to destress)