Over the past few years I’ve been working on a couple of projects which will explore the use of Stonehenge as an active religious site. As this is a long-term effort I have room for experimentation, which includes playing around with different film stocks. This year I opted to bring a couple of rolls of …
Photographing Summer Solstice at Stonehenge on Expired Fujifilm Neopan 400 – by Simon King Read More
It would have been around late 2014 sometime when I walked into the London Camera Exchange on The Strand. I didn’t know it at the time but I was about to make a huge mistake. I had just started film photography and had only ever shot few rolls of film, namely Tri-X, Ilford XP2 and …
36 Frames / A whole roll of Fuji Neopan 400 – #FullRollFriday – By Sandeep Read More
My first exposure to Neopan 400 (Professional/Presto) was in the work of one of my favourite film photographers; Walter Rothwell. When I first discovered his work I wasn’t too interested in the medium the work was produced on; the content was powerful enough to keep my interest away from questions about film and gear. However when reading up about his process I was fascinated by the almost romantic way he described his first experiences with the film type, as well as his satisfaction when he started processing in D76.
I had my eyes on this particular compact for a while already, seeing reports here and there, and once you see someone share really good results with a certain camera or lens, it really is hard to get it out of your head again.
