I recently tried to get five rolls of 35mm film developed. After finding out how much this would cost me, I’m still sitting here, with the rolls on my desk, wondering if it’s really worth the bother.
This deserves a much longer post than I currently have time for. But I just read Wired’s latest ‘letter from the editor’ and it reminded me of the increasing critical mass of articles, as well as industry and academic discussions, about the role of design as a force for change for the world’s social ills, as innovation for societal change, and as an all round panacea for all that ails.
Apparently the Stuckists are demonstrating against the Turner Prize by…, not demonstrating.
Back in the day, when I used to use film cameras as a kid, I learned everything I ever needed to know about photography from my father. It was really very simple and went something like this:
Saw these abandoned basket chairs the other day.
Basket chairs | Olympus OM-1n | Ilford HP5+
Kodak seems to be discontinuing its last chromogenic (C-41) black and white film, BW400CN.
Having just banged on about how little I care about comparing lenses, it might seem odd to post a lens comparison.… of sorts.
Photo taken with a Zeiss Sonnar T* E 24mm F1.8 ZA24mm and a Sony Nex-7 camera
But this isn’t a lens comparison, in the usual sense of the concept. I’ve little idea which of these lenses is ‘better’ or ‘worse’, in relation to each other, or anything else for that matter. This post is more a report of some creative observations that I made, having taken them out for some long-exposure night photography recently, with a mirrorless digital camera and some adapters.
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