Ilford XP2

5 Frames with a Rolleiflex 3.5F and Ilford XP2 film in a Quarantined San Francisco – By Dan Shapiro

I live in San Francisco, California and like many cities around the world at this point in time, we’re in the midst of a shelter in place order meant to combat the Coronavirus pandemic. Like many city dwellers here, I live in a tiny studio apartment that can truly test the boundaries of one’s sanity when one is forced to shelter in place for weeks at a time. To combat the ever-present cabin fever symptoms, I’ve made it a point to go on solo photo walks and document the empty scenes of a city on hold.

A Few Frames More, with the Hasselblad XPan – by Simon King

The XPan is everything I have ever needed from a film camera. It serves the purpose to me of being fundamentally different from the regular frame shape which most film, digital and (non-square) medium formats offer. It is compact compared to medium format options, which offer signature dynamic range and depth of field, both of which …

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London Comic Con on Three Rolls of XP2 and a Leica CL – by Simon King

I’ve been photographing Comic Con for a while now, both to produce images for placement but also as part of an ongoing personal project, for which I’ve only recently realised a solid direction. In October I shot mostly with my M240, but also brought my CL and Jupiter 8 which I’ve been using for black …

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