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Monthly Archives: December 2009

A source for those hard to find filters

Friday, December 18, 2009

filterfind.net I’ve not ordered from them personally, but they’re well regarded within the community. A source for all those crazy filter sizes like 40mm, or 36mm slip on, or Series type filters – all of that stuff, in one spot.

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Mamiya 6 scan

Thursday, December 10, 2009

I’m really starting to loathe my film scanner, at this stage I’d be much happier to make some contact prints. But my Darkroom is a mess, so for now this will have to do… Another test roll for the Mamiya 6 that I’m restoring. Ilford HP5+@400EI, xtol stock, scanned on my film scanner that can’t [...]

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A note about Lucky SHD 100 in 120 format

Monday, December 7, 2009

I picked up two rolls of this today to shoot in my Mamiya 6 (still getting the rangefinder calibrated), and they were both useless. I’ve heard some reasonable reviews in the past, and shot some Shanghai GP3 as well, so didn’t see any risk in it. The problem was that the film detached from the [...]

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