Films
Many films are expired. Some of them are still quite usable, Agfa in particular. The 127 Efke films were well stored but did not keep weel as I expected.
I now mostly shoot on FOMAPAN for costs reasons and I find the results
pretty satisfying whilst ADOX is my preferred medium for 4x5 film sheets.
Instant
I was (and I am) an instant photo enthusiast and I am quite happy about the resurgence of this medium, although costs are quite high. In the past I always hurried myself in stock piling as soon as a film was discontinued. I ended up with a lot of almost unusable polaroid film packs (SX70, SPECTRA and so on).
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These are hardly usable now ... |
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| Fuji seems to last longer than | Polaroid |
Chemicals
With regard to chemicals, I was an Ilford Ilfosol addicted but later switched to ADOX and currently playing with Pyro developer (that I love for the grainless appearance of the developed negatives.
Development tools
I use classical tank development for bw and my Durst Filmetta processor for C41 and E3 (3 baths).
Here my Durst Filmetta in action (link to a video of the Filmetta in action, also known as TETENAL COLORTEC)
Bulk film loader
As the intention of this site is to show my photographic experiments with many 135 camera I own, shooting full rolls could take ages if you pretend to take acceptable pictures of non trivial subjects.
For this reason I have decided to purchase a bakelite bulk film loader to prepare my own rolls of 10-12 pictures each thus avoiding waste and reducing costs in case the camera is not 100% fit for usage.
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