Tag: Fujichrome Velvia 100

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Old signs and empty shops

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I walked past this abandoned shop while shooting the roll of expired, but satisfyingly good, Velvia 100 that I bought from eBay. The “Properties Cleared” sign was what caught my eye, the paint peeling away from the wood beneath with lovely texture.

Properties cleared

Then I noticed the shop next door, with posters pasted on the boarded up windows, so walked across the road to get a wider view of the whole scene.

It’s probably not everyone’s cup of tea, but I quite like scenes like this and find them interesting to look at. Plus, with the rate of re-development going on in this part of town it will probably not be long before the scene changes again.

I’m very pleased with the sharp rendering of this 50m lens. I already owned the F.Zuiko version, which is very nice anyay, but got the chance to pick up the Auto-S model in the 5xxxxxx seriel number range and the “made in Japan” marking, which is supposed to be the sharpest variant of the OM 50mm lens line up. For a 35mm film shot, the full size scan shows some very nice detail.

On Harvest Lane

Olympus OM-2n, Zuiko Auto-S 50mm f/1.8 & Fujichrome Velvia 100.

Taken on 2 August 2020

35mm · Film photography · Photography

Tired out by Tenet

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After a visit to the cinema today – the first in six months(!) – I’m not going to write much again today, just plonk down a few more of the Velvia 100 photos.

I saw Tenet, in case you’re interested. I think I should have taken some sort of pre-movie training course before going in. It’s going to take some time to get straight in my head exactly what was going on!

Black and orange

Summer berries

Olympus OM-2n, Zuiko Auto-S 50mm f/1.8 & Fujichrome Velvia 100.

Taken on 2 August 2020

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Colour!

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A few weeks ago I spotted someone selling a single roll of Velvia 100 on eBay. It had a single bid, but it was still at £1 (plus postage), so I waited until the last minute for a sneaky snipe and managed to buy it for the princely sum of £1.04. With postage it came to less than £4. It was listed as expired, but as it was unboxed there was no way to know how expired it might be and, for that matter, how it might have been stored. Still, for the price, I wasn’t too worried and even entertained the idea of having it cross-processed. In the end though, I decided against it, and just shot it at 80asa.

When I got the developed transparencies back I was very happy. The whole roll apperared to be well exposed (chalk up a win for the OM-2n’s meter!) and the colours practically leapt from the sheet with richly saturated tones. To be honest, I wouldn’t be surprised to find that the roll of film was fresh stock.

As with other rolls of E6 film, it took some tweaking during the scanning configuration and in Lightroom (and Photoshop) to get the scans looking like the actual transparencies, but I think it was worth the effort (and I now have the settings saved for future use – I’ve just bought four more rolls of expired Velvia 100!).

I’ll be posting a whole bunch of the results here in the coming days, but for now, here’s a photo of a car tail-light that was catching some morning sunshine. It might not be the best composition ever, but man, look at those colours!

Tail-light

Olympus OM-2n, Zuiko Auto-S 50mm f/1.8 & Fujichrome Velvia 100.

Taken on 2 August 2020