Month: January 2023

Short walk with the Mamiya 645 & Rollei RPX 400 ….

The last roll of RPX 400 in 120 that I shot a while back had some weird artefacts and strange grain, it was expired I grant you but I have never had that problem with this stock before.

I bought a few rolls of fresh film after this problem and got around to shooting some last weekend.

Suffice to say it worked fine, I really like the look of this film in medium format.

It has a great range of tones, nice and sharp with minimal grain.

I shot it using my Mamiya 645 & 80mm f2.8 developed in ilfotecHC 1+15 dilution.

The only thing that I don’t like about this stock is that it is a bit curly so is not the easiest to scan using my Epson v600.

Well here is the whole roll warts and all

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Kodak Ultramax 400 ….. the whole roll

This year I am going to shoot more film and also blog more.

Last year I was way down on both due to various reasons I won’t go into so my first blog of 2023 is a roll from last year.

I have shot 2 rolls already this year but I have a few rolls from last year that I had not even bothered to edit until now.

This was a roll of Kodak Ultramax 400 that I shot using my Pentax ME Super a few months ago, I have not shot much Ultramax before and was very happy with how it looked.

The detail was plentiful and I was particularly happy with how it rendered the greens especially as it was a pretty overcast day, I imagine this film would really pop in the sunshine.

The development and scans were done by the excellent Filmdev.

Anyway here is the whole roll, comments most welcome.

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