Superia 400 with Arianne (Patreon)

Let's start with this full set of Fuji Superia 400 using the Nikon L35AF with Arianne from last week. 

This gives you a pretty good idea of all the photos coming up from this shoot. 

In bonus, here's a remaining of Kodakgold from the Olympus XA:

Lately I have been dropping my film to this lab close to home, I was so pumped because I didn't have to drive through Montreal traffic, plus prices were good. Sadly scans are not sharp enough for my taste, you probably don't see it here or on social media, but I do on my big screen. I spoke about my disappointment to them, they told me they scan on a Frontier and that there shouldn't be a problem, also told me they could sharpen up the images a little, but nope, still not up there. I don't know if these guys are blind or what but it's clearly blurry, we are losing the grain. Funny these days how the client ain't right anymore, nobody cares. 

Film processing has been a problem for me lately, it's such a detour for me to go in town these days to get proper scans for my film. Sure I can send it by mail, but I'm always hesitant to do so, like I don't trust mail and losing film would be a disaster. I started looking at scanning myself with a digital camera, but I'm still not sure, I would have to invest in some stuff and gear to do so + it can be quite the task going forward. 

All this adds on top of why I would rather shoot digital now, it's much much more convenient. Also, I'm the type of guy that switches from something becoming too popular. 

I had more fun shooting film when film wasn't mainstream haha!

I feel like the film community is always drooling over cameras and film stocks and forgets about the actual photos, whatever I take is cool because it's on film right?

There is this new social media site (no app yet) called Grainery which is all about film photography, you can add metadata like film camera, stock and lens used which will appear on top of the posts. That's all good, but yet I still think it's gear talk over actual photos, plus it is actually snobbing digital photographers! I'm glad film photographers actually have something of their own especially now where Instagram is not about photos anymore, but I dunno, tired of this bullshit, just shoot with whatever you have. 

I felt like going over there and upload digital photography pretending it is film just to fuck with them. 

Anyway, long story short, just go out and shoot with whatever inspires you. 

ttyl