Two images of the shadow cast by the mountain. First time I’ve seen something like this and gives you a pretty humbling sense of the scale.

Pentax 67ii on Tmax & Acros, developed in DDX

Shot in the car park of a 7 11 on the way back from Palouse :)

Pentax 67 on Kodak TMAX 100 in DDX

Destination…

Pentax 67ii on Tmax in DDX

Pentax 67ii on Ektachrome E100 VS, post processed for B&W

Pentax 67ii on Ektachrome E100 VS

I recently purchased an Olympus Stylus Epic off ebay for $80 or so. For those of you unfamiliar with this, it’s a now out-of-service compact film camera that houses a fixed 35mm f/2.8 lens. It’s one of the few compact cameras that has a fast wide-normal lens attached. It’s amazing how many people recognise this camera when I show it to them. It seems everyone knows a parent, uncle, friend, etc who owned one. Here’s a shot with it from last Friday. I’ll be reviewing this little camera and performing an …

Most of you who are familiar with my pictures will already know recognise Akuri from my pictures. Well recently, she’s been active behind the camera, making use of one of my Olympus OM-1’s. Here are a few pictures from her from the past couple of months… It’s interesting – our house has been filled with the best DSLR equipment in the past 5 years yet Akuri’s never really picked up a camera with much interest. It took an old dusty OM-1 lying around to get her on the photographer side …

As I’ve started to shoot more and more film recently, a question I often get asked is what the resolution of 35mm film is like and how it stacks up against the latest DSLR technology.
Here’s a quick answer – very well.
This isn’t an in depth comparison – as I don’t have a side by side right now to show, but here’s a recent scan of a 35mm negative. Quick specs of the gear used to produce this shot are:
Camera: Olympus OM-4
Lens: Olympus OM Zuiko 55mm f/1.2 shot at approx f/5.6
Film: …