Been shooting with the SP lately and its been terrific. Except for the fact that my light meter seems to be possessed! As in it’ll turn itself on or off depending on what it feels like. Luckily its been working most the times I’ve wanted it to. Thinking of taking it in for a CLA and maybe converting it to use the modern Alkaline batteries. Either that or get another one to use regularly, as I’ve become a little hesitant using my black SP as prices seem to sky-rocketing and I’d hate to loose it or drop it.
\nI’ve decided to start developing my own black and white film. Been thinking of it for a while now, and have finally been convinced by seeing a couple people I know get into it recently. I first learnt film developing and printing in high school and got some pretty impressive results, but I seem to of forgetting most of the details, so will have to relearn everything again. It’ll be fun though I hope! Think I’ll stick with Ilford chemicals and film at the moment, see how it goes, i forget what i used to use.
\nI’m going to need to invest in something that can scan film properly. My current film scanner is a flatbed scanner with film adapter but its useless. Results are really low res and overly grainy. So i have a few options; a better\/newer flatbed film scanner which are quite cheap, or a dedicated film scanner which are relatively expensive. I’m really not sure what to go with yet.
\nBought some Ilford XP2 Super last week. Been curious as to see how it looks with my Zuiko’s. I’ve only been using the Kodak BW400CN so far as it seems to be more common. Both are the same price though.
\nReally want to upgrade my 400D now. I want full frame, and something that can handle ISO noise better. Trying to find a second hand 5D, but nobody seems to be selling, everyone must be waiting for the replacement to come out first.
\nWhy is photography expensive… Sometimes I wonder why I didn’t take up something like whistling instead…
\nOh, Happy Easter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Been shooting with the SP lately and its been terrific. Except for the fact that my light meter seems to be possessed! As in it’ll turn itself on or off depending on what it feels like. Luckily its been working most the times I’ve wanted it to. Thinking of taking it in for a CLA and maybe converting it to use the modern Alkaline batteries. Either that or get another one to use regularly, as I’ve become a little hesitant using my black SP as prices seem to sky-rocketing and I’d hate to loose it or drop it. I’ve decided to start developing my own black and white film. Been thinking of it for a while now, and have finally been convinced by seeing a couple people I know get into it recently. I first learnt film developing and printing in high school and got some pretty impressive results, but I seem to of forgetting most of the details, so will have to relearn everything again. It’ll be fun though I hope! Think I’ll stick with Ilford chemicals and film at the moment, see how it goes, i forget what i used to use. I’m going to need to invest in something that can scan film properly. My current film scanner is a flatbed scanner with film adapter but its useless. Results are really low res and overly grainy. So i have a few options; a better\/newer flatbed film scanner which are quite cheap, or a dedicated film scanner which are relatively expensive. I’m really not sure what to go with yet. Bought some Ilford XP2 Super last week. Been curious as to see how it looks with my Zuiko’s. I’ve only been using the Kodak BW400CN so far as it seems to be more common. Both are the same price though. Really want to upgrade my 400D now. I want full frame, and something that can handle ISO noise better. Trying to find a second hand 5D, but nobody seems to be selling, everyone must be waiting for the replacement to come out first. Why is photography expensive… Sometimes I wonder why I didn’t take up something like whistling instead… Oh, Happy Easter!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,30,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-digital","category-film","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1695,"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123\/revisions\/1695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arransalerno.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}