The Descent of a Film Photographer Part 1: From Colour to Black & White – By Nandakumar

By Nandakumar N

This is my story of film photography over the past two decades. I come from an era where film photography was the only form of photography known to the common man. Unfortunately I was born in the tail end of that glorious era, in 1983. By the time I got to the age of awareness, murmurs were already heard about a device capable of capturing images and rendering them on a screen in an instant.

Nonetheless, I stuck with film and it was all I shot for a good 2 decades or so. I still shoot film today but it’s a far cry from what I did at the start of the 21st century. Here is a presentation of my photographic “career” in images and words. I’ve put career in inverted commas because even though I am a photographer by profession, most of the images seen here were shot for my personal projects. So, barring a couple of images, I didn’t get paid to shoot most of these photos.

A picture says a thousand words. But many of those words might be in whispers so it might not carry through to the viewer. Hence the text accompaniment. 

The Distant Past (2003 – 2014)

Many films, many speeds, meeting all needs.. 

I have been shooting films since the 90’s. But I only started bringing ten or more rolls for photography based travel since the early 2000’s. This was when I got hold of my own SLR and lenses. I had shot with my dad’s Zenit EM before but I had never brought it overseas on my own. 

This, for me, was my golden decade. Certainly not because I shot amazing photos, I’ve still not gotten there yet honestly. It’s because of the amazing variety of films I had access to. Fuji’s Velvia 50 was available in 100 feet bulk rolls, making it cheaper than any film available on the market today. At S$4-5 a roll it became our go-to slide film for a couple of years. It was also a time when Neopan 1600 existed. It is still best film I have ever shot with.

Between the years 2009 to 2011, I mainly shot on 35mm with a medium format TLR tagging along in case I wanted bigger negatives or transparencies. My cameras of choice were the F100 and the FM2. The Yashica 124G was the medium format camera I worked with. I’ve shown some images from these initial years where the film choices were slightly short of mind boggling but nonetheless very exciting for a film photographer.

Shimla was an Indian city I visited in 2009 and 2010. I mainly used this city as a stopover to the Himalayas in the winter. The films I brought along were the Kodak E100G, Ektar 100, E200, Fuji Velvia 100, Provia 100F and the Provia 400X. There would normally be a roll or two of Portra 400 as a backup incase I ran out of slides. Now, I can’t even afford a roll of Portra, let alone any of the remaining slide films that are still around today.

The E100G was an ideal film for outdoor portraits

The portrait above was shot on Kodak E100G. I found this film to be almost as good as the Provia 100F. Its only shortcoming was the inability to handle long exposures.

When on the move, I shot on Portra 400
Portra 400 was a great film to work with when shooting on the move and if one seeks forgiveness from the film for messing up the exposure

When on the move in trains etc, I’d load a Portra 400 as the light would be more unpredictable. Hence having a higher ISO helped keep the photos shake free even in a moving train. It also made you less worried about messing up the exposure when it was not easy to meter accurately. The photo above was taken on the way to Delhi from a place called Jhansi. The gentleman gave the most resplendent smile when I pointed the camera at him.

As the day came to an end in Shimla, I’d try and ensure I had a Velvia 100 loaded to capture the colours of the sunset in vivid saturation!
The one stop faster Kodak E200 worked great when the weather turned awry and the sun was blocked by clouds!

One film I regret not shooting enough was the Kodak E200 which was a film that was great for sunny and very cloudy conditions. This gentleman shot on E200 was lit up by the diffused sun thanks to a thick fog blocking much of the morning light.

Even the Kodak E100G disappeared in 2012 and I was lucky to have worked with this film in 2011 on my visit to Varanasi. When the sun was out this film worked great for portraits.

By the time I reached Varanasi in 2011, Kodak had already discontinued the Kodak E200 and I shot the last ten rolls in this city but I replaced this film with the Fuji Provia 400X and it is the best 400 ISO slide film I have ever shot.

Fuji Provia 400X was the perfect slide film. When exposed correctly it was the best walkabout slide film to shoot with.

The photo above was shot on the 400X and it was so easy working with the film in sheltered narrow walkways of Varanasi. I had just gotten hold of a Mamiya 645 PRO TL so I loaded one film back with E100G or Velvia 100 and another back with the 400X. Once in a while I’d shoot the sunrise on the 100G too. Little did I know then, the film would be discontinued over the next few months.

Although the E100G had a muted colour palette, I was quite satisfied with its rendering of the sunrise that morning.

With the E100G and E100VS being discontinued around April 2012, I mainly relied on the Fuji Slide film stock from there on. But I found a cheap alternative for Kodak slides and that was the E6 cine film called E100D. Avaialble as a 400 feet 35mm film it gave me hopes for being able to shoot cheap slide films like I did in the early 21st century! On my next trip to Tasmania and New Zealand, I brought along the Provias and Velvias  and my last few boxes of E100VS in 120 format. For 35mm, I only brought along 20 rolls of Eastman E100D.

Slide films and their saturated colours were great for landscape photography
The Velvia 100 had the best of Velvia 50 but with better reciprocity handling for longer exposures.
The E100D had this strange ability to shoot saturated landscapes yet, make skin tones look acceptable. I thought I had found my perfect 35mm slide film…
Alas it was not to be as the film was discontinued around 2014 but I managed to hoard around 80 rolls of it.

Then Fuji Astia (my preferred film for studio photography) was culled as was the Kodak E100D (only to be resurrected as the Ektachrome 100 recently by Kodak) but I added Ektar 100 to my arsenal of low ISO films. It probably marked my entry into the world of negative colour film because I would bring at least 5 rolls of negative colour films (on previous trips it might have only been one or two rolls at most) on my trips from here on.  

I don’t know if the Ektar 100 was the finest grain film on the market, but it did allow me to make an 18 by 24 inch print from this scanned 35mm negative
My last rolls of E100VS were shot in New Zealand in 2014

I shot my remaining E100D in Indonesia and India between 2014-2016 and came one step closer to ending my relationship with slide films.

A Tengerese horseman shot on Kodak E100D
Not as saturated as the Velvia, the E100D did saturate skin tones but it still didn’t look objectionable in my opinion.

My high ISO emulsions of choice were the Fuji PRO 800Z and the Portra 800. I preferred the former to the latter as the grain was a bit too conspicuous on the Portra. Unfortunately the 800Z was discontinued in 2011 and I shot my last unexpired stock in 2013-2014.

The dancers at Bagode ki Haveli in Udaipur, India could not be frozen even with an 800 ISO film so I just decided to go with the blur.
In 35mm the grain on the Portra 800 was far more conspicuous than on the 800Z in my opinion. But it was all there was, besides the Superia 1600 film which I didn’t like either.
I loved the Fuji 800Z for shooting in indoor locations with very limited lighting like this local train in Bombay.

The Not so Distant Past (2015-2018)

No one roams with so many chromes!

By 2014, slides only formed half of my film arsenal and the remaining half was negative films. I distanced myself from the over saturated slide films (Velvia and E100VS) as I wasn’t shooting as many landscapes as I did in Australia and New Zealand.  When I started working in the Himalayas during winter, I was shooting a lot more portraits and indoor shots hence I became a big fan of the Provia 400X and the Portra 400. The few landscapes I did shoot could be done on the Provia 100F at the expense of steroidal saturation.

Although Fuji 400H was cheaper (yes it really was cheap at one point in time!), it didn’t scan as well as the Portra 400 back then so I bought the Portra 400 in 220 format. I actually lugged a Mamiya RB67 (4 lenses and three film backs), a Rolleicord Vb and a Yashica 22 (dedicated 220 camera!). This was 2014. Low light photography was done using the Ilford Delta 3200 and Kodak Portra 800.  I still wasn’t  a big fan of the latter but it was all there was in 120 format for low light photography. 

As slides became more expensive I stuck to Provia 100F and almost stopped shooting Velvia completely
If you could live with the sans-steroids-saturation this film worked great when shooting on the move in the great Himalayan outdoors

The full series of images from this project appears in two parts at the links here and here

Once the light levels dropped, the Provia 400X came to the rescue as did the Portra 800.

Once window light (sunlight) became the primary light source, the Provia 400X would swing into action
With a snowy overcast day and a tiny window, even the Portra 800 required a 1/2 second shutter speed for proper exposure on the RB67 with the 65mm lens. Fortunately the monk sat rock steady!

Unfortunately 2 of my 220 format rolls of Provia 100F were destroyed by the lab in a processing error so I lost many of the landscapes and long exposures from this project. I can’t imagine how I continued shooting slide film for the next two or so years after this tragedy.

In Kyrgyzstan and Russia (which I visited in 2015 and 2016) I shot most of the remainder of my Provia 400X and 100F and started shooting more on the Portra 400 in 220 format. The 220 format was godsend when working in temperatures hovering in the negative 30 centigrade range. The main cameras I worked with were the Pentax 645N and the Pentax 67II with a Nikon F100 that I shot when on the move. The 220 film gave 33 exposures on the 645N and 20 exposures on the Pentax 67II while also saving my hands from frostbite and whatnot when changing films. I brought along a few rolls of Portra 160 in 220 format too and when the sun shone bright, I shot with it as much as possible.

But if I felt confident of being able to work with the window light, I’d always go for the Provia 400X. I miss this film.
The Sun came in from behind this doctor and through the window. I used a reflector to deflect the light back at him and the Provia 400X took care of the rest.
But if the sun shone outdoors I’d try and use up the Portra 160 because I knew the chances of using the films and exploiting its rendition of skin tones was slim in other situations.
But I still loved the Provia 100F and the versatility of it in daylight and low light with long exposures

In Russia and Kyrgyzstan, I did several hour long exposures with the Provia 100F, exploiting its reciprocity handling wherever possible. Unlike the rolls in the Himalayas, these turned out fine.

Be it the northern lights….

An Hour long exposure blurred out the Northern Lights but also produced long trails on the Provia 100F!

Or just a toilet in the middle of nowhere in Kyrgyzstan…

An hour long exposure showing the toilet underneath the Tian Shan mountains.

The Provia 100F continues to be my favourite film for making long exposures. No colour shifts, no compensation for reciprocity failure needed, it just got the job done. If I could live with just two slide films for my entire life, it’d  be the Provia 100F and 400X. No challengers.

The Big Jump (In Prices)

Drop in film types, rise in film price!

2016 was the last year I brought more than 20 rolls of colour film for a project on a single trip. A lot of effort has gone into justifying the rising price of films. From YouTube videos to blog articles, there is no shortage of material ridiculing the one complaining about the price increases. Film photographers are supposed to be grateful that production of film continues despite the increase in prices. Because, an increase in price is still better than a stop in production. All the blog articles and YouTube videos do come from a place of mild privilege. They assume that because film prices are keeping up with inflation, it is perfectly normal. They completely (or conveniently) forget that income for many people has not kept up with inflation.

I had lost four cameras and all my exposed black and white films to a thief in India in June 2017 and that kinda exacerbated the problem of being able to afford and shoot films for photo projects. But I fanatically tried to continue.

If I were to sum up all this text in images, it would look thus:

2016 allowed me to shoot on slide films in medium format

The image illustrates the capability of the Provia 100F
The reindeer herder was my last photographed subject on the Provia 100F in 120 format
This shepherd was probably the last to bless my Provia 100F films in 220 format back in 2016.

2017 had me switching to colour negatives but I could still shoot a few remaining rolls of 35mm slides. By the time 2018 started, I had completely stopped shooting colour on 120 format be it slides or negatives. I shot my residual rolls of 400H in 135 until that film too hit $15 a roll. I “downgraded” to Fujicolor C200. I’m still saving the last few rolls for a project I am hoping to shoot in colour.

By 2018 my colour photography had shifted completely to 135 format on the Fuji C200 film
It was certainly more affordable than any Portra or Fuji PRO stock and easily available.

Final Efforts in Staying Colourful

A last ditch effort, too much discomfort…

By the end of 2018 I had pretty much used up most of my colour films. It was clearly a choice between giving up colour film completely or trying to find cheaper alternatives. And it definitely is not a case of me not trying to make colour photography cheaper.

Initial tests with ECN-2 colour negatives failed miserably. I was tearing my hair out trying to maintain a 0.1 degree accuracy for the processing temperatures. All this while my toilet bowl had to be cleaned of remjet every time the processing ended. All this, just to get accurate colours on the negative. With that, the final nail in the coffin of my colour photography in film was driven in. I completely stopped shooting colour negatives since the start of the pandemic in 2020.

I just couldn’t afford it. Couple that with income loss (I work as a photographer and a photography instructor) during the lockdowns and the restrictions in photography workshops, and I pretty much wanted to sell off my gear and herd buffalos instead. I sold off my Pentax 67 and RB 67 in 2020. Paying an arm and leg for 10 exposures of any 120 film was a privilege I couldn’t afford anymore.

So colour photography shifted to digital cameras and I desperately cling on to the last thread of hope in film photography — black and white negative films.

Life sans colour.. Black and white priority!

Can’t afford chromes, only monochrome

While most of the above pictures are in colour, I always shot black and white alongside colour. I hadn’t brought a digital camera on any of the above trips and survived totally on film. With Ilford’s price increase due anytime, even black and white films are slowly getting out of reach for me. Honestly, I am happy just being able to shoot any film at all. Hence my life came to a point where I could choose to keep it simple by shooting digital. Or complicate it further by looking for a film that can be bulk loaded on the cheap and still deliver reasonably good results. No prizes for guessing what I chose.

2016 was also the year 10 rolls of Neopan 400 (135) with 2 rolls of Fuji Acros 100 (120) followed me to the Russian Arctic. Normally I’d bring around 5 rolls of black and white film for every 20 rolls of colour films. In Russia I brought 30 rolls of colour and 15 rolls of black and white films. I ended up shooting almost all of them during my month long trip. Black and white films were still cheap enough that I could shoot actually consider shooting reindeer asses on them.

When film is cheap you even shoot reindeer butts on them!
The Neopan 400 was a great film. But its life was cut short soon after I bought the last unexpired batch in 2015…
The Acros 100 was, is and probably will be the best 100 ISO black and white film ever.
Landscapes or portraits, the Acros just did everything so well.. Except pricing..

For me, 2016 was a year of flux. Coping with film discontinuations as well as my depleting repository of slide and negative films was not easy. Under these inauspicious circumstances, I undertook a project that continues till today. This is a project to document the vanishing trains of the Indian Railways in black and white.

My first experiments with black and white films was in the year 2003-04. Prior to the pandemic, my last experiments with film were in the year 2017. By experiments, I mean trying out films in different shooting conditions and seeing which films give the best combination of economy and image quality. Back then Foma 200 and 400 lost out to Orwo N74 (ISO 400). I swore by the N74 until Orwo decided to change the emulsion in late 2018.

Many of the images I shot between 2016 to 2019 for this project on the Indian Railways are found here

But I have included some below as well.

The Orwo N74 400 ISO film was the best balance between cost and performance in my opinion
I was about as happy with this film as these people were with their first cup of tea in the morning.
Much as this mendicant puffed his way to euphoria, I was shooting my way into monochrome dystopia.

That I had found a film that was cheap, good and easy to obtain was something I’d never have thought possible. Like all good things, this too came to an end in 2018. Orwo decided to change its emulsion. The newer N75 was much slower (that 320 you see on the packaging is a lie) than Filmotec claimed. Resignation almost set in at this point for me to give up and switch to digital.. My residual stock of frozen N74 ran out in December 2019. By then Acros had become Acros II and even more unaffordable. I have 10 rolls of the original Acros in my freezer in both 120 and 135 format.

It was then I decided to evaluate another film and consider going through the pain of testing it..

Stay tuned for Part II to find out which film it was and how it fared in the tests I put it through.

 

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Wiley on The Descent of a Film Photographer Part 1: From Colour to Black & White – By Nandakumar

Comment posted: 02/05/2022

This is awesome photography, accompanied by a great stroll through a life of memories. Thank you so much for sharing; looking forward to Pt 2!!
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Scott on The Descent of a Film Photographer Part 1: From Colour to Black & White – By Nandakumar

Comment posted: 02/05/2022

Great work and great writing. Looking forward to pt 2!
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Harry Machold on The Descent of a Film Photographer Part 1: From Colour to Black & White – By Nandakumar

Comment posted: 02/05/2022

Too bad that this is all so true...
Film photography is for the financially elect only...the chosen one.
And the ones who are capable to do a lot of processing by themself what I cannot do or at least didn´t so far.
I have many film cameras; Leica´s, Nikon´s, others; you name them.
And I love to use them, in 35mm. in 120 and yes, I still keep 100 rolls in 220; seeing new 220´s coming on the market.
I will always shoot film, having hundreds of different sort in my fridge and freezer.
But for well selected moments and chosen times..
In general, I shoot digital; like Leica S (CCD only), like M 9, like Fuji X Pro 1
Which make me stay as close to film as possible.
Film is my love..
Digital Medium format is my joy..
Photography is my life..

Thank you for this article; it means so much to me in this night over here in Austria..
I wait for part II...
Your photographs are breathtaking....
And go very deep...
Stay safe..

Harry
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Tim Bradshaw on The Descent of a Film Photographer Part 1: From Colour to Black & White – By Nandakumar

Comment posted: 02/05/2022

This captures something I have felt recently. I love shooting chrome. But I recently worked out that my (rash, not really affordable) purchase of a used Sigma Foveon camera was equivalent to about 20 rolls of Ektachrome. That's depressing, but I did the right thing, I think.
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Paul on The Descent of a Film Photographer Part 1: From Colour to Black & White – By Nandakumar

Comment posted: 02/05/2022

What an incredible article, what an eye opener !! Love the honesty coupled with beautiful imagery! Can't wait for part II ! Regards, Paul
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Michael J on The Descent of a Film Photographer Part 1: From Colour to Black & White – By Nandakumar

Comment posted: 02/05/2022

Fantastic stories- and I have to say pro or not you're dead good with the slides. Some people write amazing memoirs of their lives amongst great film stars or sportsmen, where you have rubbed shoulders with all the great film emulsions of the early 21st century!
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Technician on The Descent of a Film Photographer Part 1: From Colour to Black & White – By Nandakumar

Comment posted: 02/05/2022

Incredible photography right here! This is the kind of work that can and will inspire many to sharpen their mind tools. Thanks for posting this!
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Nandakumar N on The Descent of a Film Photographer Part 1: From Colour to Black & White – By Nandakumar

Comment posted: 03/05/2022

Thanks one and all for your kind words and encouragement! This was my first piece for 35mmc and I'm thankful to the community for such a wonderful reception!
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Alan on The Descent of a Film Photographer Part 1: From Colour to Black & White – By Nandakumar

Comment posted: 03/05/2022

Wow. What absolutely stunning photography! And a poignant visual elegy to the loss of so many wonderful film stocks, that I never got to try.
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Jamie W on The Descent of a Film Photographer Part 1: From Colour to Black & White – By Nandakumar

Comment posted: 03/05/2022

Wow, really fantastic photos - amazing to see what you achieved with colours, especially with your early adventures in chrome. Looking forward to an education in BW, bring on part II !
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Johan on The Descent of a Film Photographer Part 1: From Colour to Black & White – By Nandakumar

Comment posted: 03/05/2022

Stunning!
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Leonel LeyvaC on The Descent of a Film Photographer Part 1: From Colour to Black & White – By Nandakumar

Comment posted: 03/05/2022

Excelentes imágenes!
Me gusta el contraste y los tonos de tus fotos en blanco y negro.
Excelentes retratos!, Se ven naturales y hermosamente iluminados.
Gracias por compartir tus imágenes.
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Graeme on The Descent of a Film Photographer Part 1: From Colour to Black & White – By Nandakumar

Comment posted: 03/05/2022

This was a great read with some wonderful images but it triggered a whole new wave of mourning for lost films. Is there a crowdfunding opportunity here? One of the things I like about other people’s photos is that I can travel vicariously and I’d welcome the opportunity to sponsor a few rolls of film that would buy me the chance to visit somewhere I’d never be able to go in person.
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Gary on The Descent of a Film Photographer Part 1: From Colour to Black & White – By Nandakumar

Comment posted: 03/05/2022

You are a diehard and a wonderful photographer. Thank you for sharing your journey. While some of us make due with the remaining filmstocks, buying a little at a time, I can't imagine purchasing the quantities you did at today's prices. (Electrons are basically free.) Pray tell, how did you travel, inc. through airports, with all that film? And how did you schlep all those cameras? I look forward to Part 2 to learn which available filmstocks you use now.
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Nandakumar N replied:

Comment posted: 03/05/2022

Thanks for your kind words Gary. Films are a lot more X ray tolerant than we give them credit for. The craziest escape I had was 2-3 rolls of Delta 3200 that went through at least 6 rounds of X rays in China, two of which were in malls in a remote coal mining town! but yes, even now when I carry 20 rolls of films for travel I request for hand inspection only because the new CT scans in some airports have been confirmed to ruin photographic film. if you turn up early enough, its not too much of a hassle. As for the cameras, it was just manual labour. Carried it on a terrible backpack. Unfortunately camera backpacks are only now being manufactured with comfort in mind. Back then it was only about space I think.. :-)

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Jay Dann Walker in Melbourne on The Descent of a Film Photographer Part 1: From Colour to Black & White – By Nandakumar

Comment posted: 03/05/2022

In the 1960s nd 1970s (I started young, at age 13 in 1961), I did most of my photography with a Rolleiflex TLR. Ektachrome, Fujicolor, Plus-X.

In or about 1975 I went big time into 35mm photography. Initially with a Mamiya SLR, then a Pentax, eventually into Nikons, rather Nikkormats. My choice (and use) of films expanded - Kodachrome, Ektachrome, Fujichrome, Agfachrome, almost every B&W film known at the time.

Things floated along nicely until the early 2000s when digital became widely available and popular, and significantly eroded my stock photography sales. Everybody posted their zillions of digisnaps on the internet and buyers picked them up for a few dollars per image. Down the gurgles went my stock image business. I still sell, but very little now, compared to back then.

I held out on digital until 2010 when Nikon released the D90, which was the first such camera I thought gave me the quality I wanted in my images. Over the next few years, I shifted my color work entirely to this Nikon (subsequently replaced by the D700 and currently, the D800, if anyone is interested to know). B&W I continued to do with my film cameras, as film gives me the mid-tones I look for in my negatives.

The Rolleis (I have four) now sit largely on the shelf. I try to use them a few times every year, for nostalgia's sake and also as I still have a few dozen roll films in my darkroom fridge. When this stock is used up, well, I don't know...

I admire anyone (like the author of this excellent article) who perseveres with film in this day and age. Alas, the writing is on the wall for 'analog' and those of us who read quickly have seen it coming for some time. I hope the film era will go on for a while yet, but here in Australia I now have to pay almost AUD$200 for bulk film, and considerably more than this for Kodak Tri-X which was once everybody's most used (and affordable) film.

Time passes, all things change. We have to go with the flow.

Or as the Buddhists say, it is seldom useful to struggle to change the weather...

From Dann in Melbourne, Australia
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Dan on The Descent of a Film Photographer Part 1: From Colour to Black & White – By Nandakumar

Comment posted: 03/05/2022

Amazing work here. The sadhu on the train is brilliant. I love a good wide angle portrait like that, makes his pipe stick out so vividly. Anyway I am in the same boat, having to ditch color film altogether because of cost. I was dragging my feet for a year straight, spending my whole Christmas bonus just on film and not even lasting the year with it.

I ended up selling 3x Nikon F2's to buy a D4. Blasphemy, I know.. but I am very happy with the files that the D4 sensor spits out, there is a grit and graininess to them that looks distinctly different from more modern sensors. Some of that is down to this being a Nikon with an in-house sensor, not from Sony like most of them. There is a lot out there in terms of (older) sensor tech that can work to mimic the look of slide film. Of course nothing beats the real thing, but I am just after images that speak to me and don"t have distracting qualities, especially in a print. I look forward to part 2 of this topic!
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Patrick Medd on The Descent of a Film Photographer Part 1: From Colour to Black & White – By Nandakumar

Comment posted: 04/05/2022

Phenomenal photographs-thank you for sharing! I pretty much reached the same conclusion as you about colour film a few years ago. I remember when I would buy 20 rolls of Velvia for a trip at £3.50 a roll (late 1990s). Not worth looking at the price of a roll of Velvia now. Unfortunately change is the only constant in life.
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Stelios Themelakis on The Descent of a Film Photographer Part 1: From Colour to Black & White – By Nandakumar

Comment posted: 04/05/2022

Damn! All of us are definitely in the right place at the wrong time. Your great article reminded to all of us the beauty of film and the privilege we have to still use. Amazing photos, great article, can't wait for pt2!!!
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Charlie B. on The Descent of a Film Photographer Part 1: From Colour to Black & White – By Nandakumar

Comment posted: 09/05/2022

Your portrait work is.... Phenomenal. If I can ever be half that good at portraits I'll consider that a success. You truly know the films, have the eye to see how to use your equipment, and can express your thoughts incredibly well through word and image. Thank you for sharing this. I'm incredibly thankful to have stumbled across this story. Will be reading part 2 next.
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Ibraar Hussain on The Descent of a Film Photographer Part 1: From Colour to Black & White – By Nandakumar

Comment posted: 01/03/2023

Excellent work - some look like actual movie stills ! Thank you
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