Kodak Gold 200 is something special these days. I don’t have the feeling it has ever been a highly praised 35mm film, but it is one of the few color films that is affordable and still widely available in 2022. Processing and scanning was done at urbanfilmlab in Germany.
During the 2020/2021 Covid pandemic many of us did strange things. What did I do? Sell my 20 years old Pokemon card collection, buy a Leica M6 and venture into analogue photography – Bastian Here you can find all articles related to these adventures. This series also inspired my colleague Martin to delve into analogue … Continue reading Analogue Adventures
Introduction Modern lenses are too good, free of most optical aberrations even at their maximum aperture. This led to a whole new market emerging offering all kind of accessories to make your pictures look worse: kaleidoscope filters, prisms, streak filters and black mist/diffusion filters, the latter being what we will have a look at today.
A couple of years ago, with samples taken on the last major overseas trip I took before Covid closed the world for quite a while, I reviewed the Laowa 100mm macro. I concluded it was good and sharp, a little challenged for flare at longer distances, but absolutely superb in the macro range. Eventually – … Continue reading Laowa FFii 90mm F2.8 CA-Dreamer Macro 2x: getting close!
Introduction When using Leica M cameras I generally try to stick to using small lenses, but there is a problem: small lenses are usually slow and I find slow lenses (at least non-ultrawides) incredibly boring. My workaround is using some of the MS-Optics lenses as they try to be small, lightweight and fast at the … Continue reading Analogue Adventures – Part 8: Going small with MS-Optics lenses