Tag: Thomas
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Back Home in December: Film Photography, New Lenses, and a Spontaneous Trip to Gornergrat
In early December, my older sister was flying back to France, which gave me a good excuse to spend a few days at home with my family. It also turned out to be the perfect opportunity to put two new lenses through their paces: the Zeiss Distagon 21mm f/2.8 and the Zeiss Makro-Planar 50mm f/2. I had picked…
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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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Life and Nature in San-Sebastián
May 1st is the French Labour Day holiday. This year, it fell on a Thursday, so I decided to take Friday off and turn it into a four-day weekend. I’ve been to San Sebastián a handful of times, but this time I wanted to spend two full days there—just enough time to enjoy some great…