Grass and Overcast Sky

Olympus Trip 35 and Fuji Superia 200 film, developed at local lab and scanned on my CanoScan 5600F.

Dead Trees - Rietvlei Reserve

Olympus Trip 35 (of course, duh!) and Fuji Superia 200 film, developed at local lab and scanned on my CanoScan 5600F.

Dining Room in Totius House, Potchefstroom, South Africa

Taken with the amazing Olympus Trip 35 on Ilford XP2 Super 400 film, developed at local lab and scanned on my CanoScan 5600F. The camera wouldn't let me take the pic because the light was too low, so I took it off auto and set it to f2.8 and voila! Got the photo anyway! I think it looks moody.

President Pretorius Historic House, Potchefstroom, South Africa

Taken with the amazing Olympus Trip 35 on Ilford XP2 Super 400 film, developed at local lab and scanned on my CanoScan 5600F.

Some cool web pages with Trip 35 content!

Very cool Trip 35 photos here: http://bourne.gg/category/olympustrip35/

Trip 35 street photos here: http://www.caughtinthelight.co.uk/index.php?x=browse&category=11

And you can buy or refurbish your Trip 35 here: http://www.streetshooters.co.uk/

If you have anymore links for me just let me know and I'll post them here!

Keep "Tripping"!

Secret Film Development Process (Involves a Trip 35)

I have been working on a new top secret film developing process which I shall now explain for the more technically minded among you. Please keep it to yourself because if this gets out then everybody is going to be doing it and it won't be unique, or secret, any longer.

Here it is step by step:

1.) Acquire any old 35mm film camera (cheap because nobody wants them any more) I used a Trip 35, but this process should work equally well with other types/brands too.

2.) Find some heavily expired, discontinued slide, E6, film. It's even better if it has been hand rolled into a C41 negative film canister. For the purposes of this scientific, photographic research I used Kodachrome 64, hand rolled into a 200 ISO Agfa negative film canister.

3.) Load said film into purchased camera.

4.) Find a subject and shoot it.

5.) Take film out of camera.

6.) This step is very important. Take film to local film development lab and hand it in without telling them what the film really is. They should just stick it through the regular C41 machine and press "go", or whatever it is they do back there that got so expensive to do in the last ten years.

7.) When you go to pick up the film they will think the film is ruined and they might not charge you for the development. Make sure you take the film home anyway, don't be a sucker.

8.) Scan your film as negative film.

9.) Mess with the resultant images in the GIMP/Photoshop/Paintshop Pro, etc. until it looks kinda old and groovy like the samples below.

10.) Post them on-line for all to see and claim that you have discovered a new top secret process for developing film.

What are you doing here reading this blog post, get out now and go have some fun! GO!

This post is also on my other blog here.

Empty Deck

Taken on XP2 Super 400, scanned on a CanoScan 5600F, edited with the GIMP.