Category: Reviews
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Grain & Granite: Hiking Lac de Gaube on Recordak AHU 5786 Film
A spontaneous overnight hike in the French Pyrenees turned into a field test for a rare and long-expired microfilm: Kodak Recordak 5786, manufactured in France under the Kodak-Pathé label. Armed with a Nikon F5, a Sigma 24mm f/1.4, and a 55mm Micro-Nikkor, I shot the roll at ISO 6 and developed it in POTA —…
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Shooting Svema Mikrat Orto Direct in the Pyrenees
What happens when you take a nearly forgotten ISO 0.8 direct positive film, POTA developer, and a tripod up into the French Pyrenees? Magic, it turns out. In this post, I take Svema Mikrat Orto Direct Positive on a 14 km mountain loop around the Pic du Midi d’Ossau to see if this ultra-slow microfilm…
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Review: Zeiss Otus 55mm
The first lens I bought was a Nikon 135mm f2 DC. After reading many reviews about it online, one day my father and I drove to the local camera shop where it was up for sale, and I decided to pull the trigger. I still own this lens to this day and value it for…
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Review: Agfa Copex Rapid
Recently, I’ve been interested in trying super high-resolution films—films that offer better resolution than the standard cubic or even T-grain types of film. Two such microfilms have caught my attention: Adox CMS 20 II and Agfa Copex Rapid. Not having any experience with either I decided to start my journey with the latter, as it…