I recently acquired a Lomography Fisheye One. I loaded this with 400 speed film, which seemed to be about perfect for daytime outdoor photos. However, I recommend using a faster film if shooting indoors (even with the built in flash).
The focusing distance on this thing is 4cm, so it’s kind of amazing for self shots – you can even cram a couple friends in there with you due to the wide angle view.
I also love that the lens is visible in all the frames. Rectangles, squares, now circles.
-Kelly
I want to try to post more film reviews and information about what I’m shooting and loving.
I recently ran across an expired roll of Kodak Elite-Chrome 100 Slide Film. I cross-processed it and shot a roll at the local Nursery (Native Grounds in Mt Shasta, CA – beautiful). I really love the way the color of the sky came out. This was the perfect film for May flowers!
Happy Shooting
-Kelly
I snagged this nifty little camera on eBay. It comes with a waterproof case in a multitude of fancy colors.
The Hello Kitty swimming sticker is my own addition.
I shot slide film and cross processed it. The photos are wonderfully blurry and out of focus. Just what you want from an entirely plastic camera. Next: I will use this film underwater as intended.
- Kelly
I have a film scanner. It’s high tech and fancy. It digitizes my film, but we’re still at a point in technology where I don’t think anything replicates film the way I’d like it to… yet.
Just for comparison, here is the same photo,
Scanned as film:
Printed by Hand and Photographed:
The saturation, details and vignetting I could pull out in the print lab, my lovely scanner knows not these things. If you ignore the artifacts from the picture of the print (foggy in the black area up top), it’s just a better rendering of a picture. Nailed the contrast, added the tone I wanted to the greens.
Yay for hand printing.
Kelly
Everyone with an iphone or a Droid with a funky camera phone app has probably heard of Cross Processing (aka X-Pro) and knows the photos come out greenish/yellowish/bluish depending on the app. But did you know there is a whole film developing process behind cross processing that created the inspiration behind the apps?
Cross Processing is when you take color slide film (usually a positive film that is developed in E6 chemicals) and develop it in color negative developers (your normal negative film is developed in C41 chemicals) or visa versa. I recently bought slide film with this specific intention.
First, I want to point out that whatever chemicals you use to develop will dictate whether the film comes back as negatives or positives.
Second, the X-pro slide film comes back a weird color. I knew even before I got this in the darkroom that things were going to be interesting… Left, normal negative. Right, X-pro slide film.
I processed these by adding a lot of yellow to the color filter pack (which removes yellow from the print), but you can see how green these are.
Just for comparison, I took a “cross processed” photo with the Vignette app on my phone.
Hmmm… well, that’s neat. It’s missing the grain and texture of the film. But I still don’t think digital is anywhere close to being on the same level as film as far as printing and effects. I love the cell phone apps, and they’re plenty cute, but if you like the look I highly suggest shooting a roll of film and having it cross processed at your local photo lab. There is nothing like it.
Kelly
