How much film?

Instax

I seem to have built up a supply of analogue film. I recently bought a Instax Square to go with the wide and mini cameras, along with 40 shots for the square and 30 for the mini, luckily these have a fairly long expiry date so I wouldn't have to shoot though it all yet.

As for 35mm film; I have been gifted 5 rolls of the stuff and it all ranges from Kodak Gold 200 to Colorama 200. The Colorama is the free film's, you use to get back from the chemist when you'd had a roll developed by them.

The rolls range in date from 2007 to 2010, so pretty well expired, it with be interesting to see what results come back once they are processed.  I have already started shooting with the 1st roll for 2007, which I shot on a film photowalk, yesterday in North London.

5 rolls of expired 35mm film

Although the film is rated at ISO200, I have been told its best to shoot it at ISO100, so that does mean that brighter days will be better.

If the results come back OK-ish, I do have a possible project to use the remaining 4 rolls on.

One Film

Beer Porn

Yesterday I joined up with the One Film Facebook group.  The premise of one film is, to go out and shoot one roll of film on a given subject (yesterday's was Dusk) get the film developed at a 1 hour processing lab then pick your best three images to be judged with all the other participants. 

Yesterday started at 3pm at Charing Cross and was to end at 6pm and meet at Brewdog Soho for the judging.

There were roughly 20 people on this meet but unlike a photowalk, everybody goes their separate ways, some when to the Southbank, one even make their way out to Canary Wharf.

I decided to stay in the centre and went around the usual spots, Soho, Chinatown and the West End.

As this was a last minute decision for me to go, I didn't have a great deal of choice of that film I would use, so it was a 24 exposure ISO 200, poundland film.  As it would be dark for most of the shoot I took my Olympus XA3 mainly because this is the only camera I had that has a flash, not that it helps as I was reluctant to use it (I'm not a lover of flash).  The XA3 is full automatic so this meant a lot of slow shutter speeds as the light dropped and a lot of blurry images.

Horizontals and Verticals 

   

I ♥ London

Dinner for two

The real fun and social aspect comes once everybody meets up again in the Pub. It's the usual chat about where everybody has been and what they think they may have captured, its a nervous hour waiting to see what is going to come back from the lab.

Once all the films are in, everybody chooses their best three (mine are the three above) and David the organiser collects them and numbers each in a random order then lays them out for the judging to being.  The judging is via an app on the Facebook group and everybody gets to choose their favourite three, the one with the highest percentage of votes is the winner.

60+ images ready for judging. Red glow from the Beer Porn sign.

This was enjoyable event and definitely something I will attend again, though next time I will make sure I'm better prepared.