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Last Saturday morning, I received a package in the mail.  It was a roll of 616 Kodak Verichrome film, with an expiration date of 1944.  Yes, 1944. And I know very well that I’ll be lucky if I get silhouettes out of this roll of film – but maybe that can work to my advantage.…

A couple of weeks ago, my blog buddy Kevin Marshall tweeted that his friend Eric was having a yard sale.  It was late afternoon when I received the tweet, and having apprenticed under my sainted Grandma Betty about the ins and outs of yard sales and flea markets, I knew that the early  birds would…

Last Sunday, I tried to take some pictures in St. Agnes Cemetery.  Unfortunately, mother Nature was busy unloading gallons and gallons of water from the sky, which meant that I couldn’t get the beautiful, sunny day I had hoped to achieve. I had two “prepared” cameras – my Holga 120N and my Agfa Chief –…

First I tried cramming two rolls of 35mm film into a medium-format camera.  And yes, the results were impressive. Then I tried shooting with vintage 50-year old film.  And yes, the results were astounding. Now comes my next magic trick.  And whether or not this works might be the reason I enter or don’t enter…

Redscale photography was discovered by accident some years ago, and it’s created a new discipline in both experimental and lo-fi photography. What is redscale, you ask? Follow along.  If you put a 35mm film cartridge into your camera and shoot, you’ll get normal pictures. Now what if you put that 35mm film cartridge into your…

This actually took a lot longer than I expected, but here’s what happened. I actually won an eBay auction in March for a pack of Ansco All-Weather Panchromatic 120 black-and-white film, with an expiration date of 1964.  Unfortunately, the rollfilm took forever to arrive – and when it did, I noticed that the seller accidentally…

So yesterday, I posted pictures taken with Polaroid’s defunct 35mm instant slide film PolaBlue, which is supposed to create blue-on-white monochromatic images. Well, by the time I got the film, it had developed a color shift to create blue-on-magenta images. I also received a few packs of Polaroid’s color slide film, PolaChrome, and I popped…

A month or so ago, I tried to mess around with Polaroid’s 35mm instant slide films, including the blue-white contrasting film PolaBlue.  My first test results weren’t all that spectacular, and I was about to give up on the project entirely. Then I found another couple of canisters of both PolaBlue and PolaChrome film, and…

I haven’t done my “split film” photo trick in a while – cramming two rolls of 35mm film into one camera and then shooting away.  But last week, I prepared the Holga for another run of split film photos. Since I had to take a drive into Canada, I taped up the Holga with two…