Black & White film photography is a growth industry!
Yep, that’s the consensus from a number of sources and although there a number
of excellent choices for black & white film stocks my favorite has always
been Kodak Tri-X.
Here is a really creepy shot taken in a local cemetery. I
guess it would look okay in color but black & white film really creates a
whole “other take” on the subject. And yes, I know that digital cameras can
also produce black & white images but they do not have the “character” of
the images taken on film.
I guess cemeteries and black & white film just kind of
go together.
This
is another photograph taken with the Beacon 225 medium format camera I blogged
about back on May 17th. A beautiful marvel of the early 20th
century camera manufacturing art, this camera is really a high class version of
a simple box camera that looks like more because of its exotic shape and durable
features. The simple glass lens produces excellent and reasonably sharp images
on 120 film transferred to 620 film spools. Its kind of like shooting with a
Holga but with better results and clearly this 60+ year old camera has already
outlasted several Holgas.
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