Rediscovering the joys of using a film camera!

Thanks to the encouragement of a good friend and fellow camera enthusiast, I have started making photographs using older cameras and film of differing makes and sizes. The collections within this page are dedicated solely to the pleasures of using analogue film, rather than digital, to create images. Also, to showcase the vagaries and idiosyncrasies of the cameras, and the extraordinary variety of film stock now available.

Brick Lane, London E1
2021
Images taken using a 1978 model Olympus OM1N 35mm SLR camera with a Vivitar 28mm f/2.8 lens. Film stock is twenty year old Kodak B+W 400 exposed at ASA 320 and pushed between one and a half and two stop during developing. Images scanned to digital using a Nikon D750 with a 60 mm f/2.8 D macro lens. Images converted to positive using Negative Labs Pro v2.2 with additional processing in Adobe Lightroom. Films developed by Aperture.
© 2021 Louis Harvey
Whitechapel Market
2021
Images taken using a 1978 model Olympus OM1N 35mm SLR camera with a Vivitar 28mm f/2.8 lens and Ilford XP4 pushed one stop during developing. Images scanned to digital using a Nikon D750 with a 60 mm f/2.8 D macro lens. Images converted to positive using Negative Labs Pro v2.2 with additional processing in Adobe Lightroom.
© 2021 Louis Harvey
Brick Lane Street Art
2021
Images taken using a 1978 model Olympus OM1N 35mm SLR camera with a Vivitar 28mm f/2.8 lens. Images scanned to digital using a Nikon D750 with a 60 mm f/2.8 D macro lens. Images converted to positive using Negative Labs Pro v2.2 with additional processing in Adobe Lightroom.
© 2021 Louis Harvey
Willesden Jewish Cemetery
2021
Images taken using a Yashica-Mat 124G 6x6 medium format camera with a Yashinon 80 mm f/3.5 lens. Images scanned to digital using a Nikon D750 with a 60 mm f/2.8 D macro lens. Images converted to positive using Negative Labs Pro v2.2 with additional processing in Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, DxO Pure Raw and Silver Eefx Pro.2.
© 2021 Louis Harvey
Autumn in Greenwich Park
A series of photographs taken with my Olympus OM1N using outdated film stock. The intention was to capture the feeling and spirit of autumn in monochrome.
2020
All images digitally copied from the original 35 mm negatives using a Nikon D750 with a 60 mm f/2.8D macro lens. Images captured using an Olympus OM1N SLR with a Zuiko 35 - 70 mm f/4.0 zoom. Original film stock Kodak Select Series ISO 400 monochrome. Film stock dates from the 1990s and was only recently defrosted after several decades in cold storage. All images post processed in Adobe Lightroom after conversion to positives using Negative Lab Pro software v2.2. Some additional processing using Adobe Photoshop and DxO Nik Collection plugins.
© 2020 Louis Harvey
Crystal Palace Park
2020
Images taken using a Yashica-mat 124G 6x6 medium format with a Yashinon 80 mm f/3.5 lens., and Fuji Neopan ASA 400 film stock. Images converted to digital using a Nikon D750 with a 60 mm f/2.8 D macro lens. Images converted to positive using Negative Labs Pro v2.2 with additional processing in Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop and DxO Silver Eefx Pro.2.
© 2020 Louis Harvey
Sissinghurst Castle Garden
2020
Images taken using an Olympus OM1N with a Zuiko 50 mm f/1.8 lens. Images captured on 15 year out of date ASA 400 Sainsburys film stock film. Images converted to digital using a Nikon D750 with a 60 mm f/2.8 D macro lens. Images converted to positive using Negative Labs Pro v2.2 with additional processing in Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop and DxO Silver Eefx Pro.2.
© 2020 Louis Harvey
Bateman's
The home and estate of Rudyard Kipling.
2020
Images taken using a Yashica-mat 124G 6x6 medium format 120 roll camera with a Yashinon 80 mm f/3.5 lens. Images converted to digital using a Nikon D750 with a 60 mm f/2.8 D macro lens. Images converted to positive using Negative Labs Pro v2.2 with additional processing in Adobe Lightroom and Photoshop.
© 2020 Louis Harvey
Greenwich
2020
Images taken using an Olympus OM1N with a Zuiko 35 mm to 70 mm f/4 lens. Images captured on Kodak TNY TMAX 400 monochrome film.
© 2020 Louis Harvey
Greenwich Park
Photographs taken with an early 1950s Zeiss Ikon Nettar 518/16.
2020
© 2020 Louis Harvey
South Downs Walk
Pictures taken with a vintage 1916 Kodak Vest Pocket Autographic 127 roll film camera. The camera was loaded with Rera Pan Film 127 B&W (ISO 400).
2020
© 2020 Louis Harvey
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