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Provia 400 Color Negative with Polarizer Lens

I have no idea what possessed me to shoot a roll of my precious Provia 400 color negative film with a polarizer lens. For one thing, Provia 400 is a very rare film to find these days. Fuji doesn’t make it anymore and if you can find any for sale in the expired film marketplace it’s usually expensive. As you may or may not know, shooting 120 film (or any film for that matter) is a costly endeavor…

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Ilford 1600 B&W film at Olympic National Park and Vancouver

I normally don’t shoot B&W film, but I had a few rolls of Ilford 1600 B&W film in my freezer and thought I’d give them a shot, so to speak. I shot one roll at Ruby Beach in Olympic National Park on a grey Sunday last march and the other last June on a weekend trip in Vancouver, BC…

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Retrochrome 320 Slide Film at Rattlesnake Trail, WA

There’s nothing more fun for me than finding and shooting a weird vintage or expired film on my cameras, and I recently shot and developed a few rolls of a super cool slide film called Retrochrome 320, a 35mm film custom rolled from the folks at Film Photography Project. According to their website, the Retrochrome 320 is a government surplus film that was originally made for industrial and government applications, most likely stored in a deep freeze…

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