Today someone asked me to elaborate about my reference yesterday to the Canoscan’s 8800F “budget” characteristics … here’s a quick summary and a comparison with a Nikon Coolscan 5000.
As a very quick introduction, the Canoscan is a budget flatbed scanner from Canon. It has a high max DPI resolution and retails at the very low price of somewhere between $160 – $200. When I first got the scanner, I was amazed that it could support such a wide variety of film formats – from 35mm film to MF to regular …

With my recent experiments with 35mm film, I decided to pick up my Hasselblad 500 C/M again… interestingly, I found it already had a roll of film in it which was halfway used. I couldn’t remember what film it even was so just took a guess at ISO 160 (which fortunately turned out to be correct) and finished it off yesterday while walking around town. I’m going to be using this fantastic camera a fair bit in the new year so expect more postings on this soon. In the meantime, …

“The Holga is an inexpensive, medium format 120 film toy camera, made in China, appreciated for its low-fidelity aesthetic.”

Originally shot with a Olympus OM-4 + Olympus OM Zuiko 21mm f/2.0 lens on Fujicolor Pro 160s. Modified with a Photoshop Holga action
Holga’s really are remarkable cameras. Take everything that is valued in the digital photography world (edge to edge sharpness, contrast, accurate exposure, lack of vignetting, etc), look for the inverse of it, and you have a Holga. But despite the flaws, these are surprisingly popular cameras. What they have going …

Autumn came and pretty much went really fast here… a few pics from the last couple of weeks. Combination of Fuji Velvia 100 & Fujicolor Pro 160s shot with a Olympus OM-1 / OM-4 combo and a couple of Zuiko…