Vlad the Photographer
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So some of the scans I got back from the lab come from Dracula Film. I mean literally that's what they call it, but I have a suspicion that it's just expired (or re-labeled) Svema film, originally produced in the Ukraine.
It's a panchromatic B&W negative film that has a more-than-decent amount of contrast to it. Also, it's really panchrome. Almost infrared. Which might explain some of the results: film stocks (or digital sensors, for that matter) that pick up infrared light can also pick up the reflective "glow" that foliage and other objects can emit. Or it could be the lens or any number of other factors. Either way, it's some cool ass film.
Obviously these aren't awesome photos or anything, they were just a test roll to see if the Olympus camera I picked up actually works. Seems it does. (Except for the final photo. Shouldn't have trusted the zone metering from the camera and should've used a spot meter instead. Ah well, user error is a much easier problem to fix.)
I was going to put a red filter on the camera to really push the contrast. Very glad I didn't, that would've been insane. I could so see a Boris Karloff movie being filmed on something like this.
(Not-humble-at-all-brag: I had to zone focus these sumbitches.)
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Kind of gives an eerie feeling to the pictures. Look cool though
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@taiwan_girl said in Vlad the Photographer:
Kind of gives an eerie feeling to the pictures. Look cool though
Right?? Dracula film indeed!
