Welcome to the Second Edition of The Sunday Film Roll… my weekly rummage through what’s happening in film photography.
This week: Martians on film, football on 35mm, a fresh reminder of why old cameras need careful hands… and proof that people still want to learn how analogue photography actually works.
👽 WOKING GOES RED FOR H. G. WELLS
Kosmo Foto published a wonderfully odd film-photography story this week: a photowalk through Woking, Surrey, themed around H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds.
The clever bit? Harman supplied everyone with a roll of its Red redscale film, turning ordinary Surrey into something rather more Martian. The walk actually took place previously, but the feature was published on 21 September, Wells’ birthday. Kosmo Foto
It’s a nice reminder that choosing the film can be part of the creative idea, rather than simply deciding whether you fancy ISO 200 or 400.
📸 THE TRIP 35 DOING WHAT IT DOES BEST
A photographer on Reddit recently shared photographs from a trip around Maine taken on an Olympus Trip 35.
Nothing especially unusual about that… until you read the story.
It was their first time shooting film in decades, and their first time using the Trip.
That, for me, is one of the nicest things about these cameras.
You don’t need to become an exposure-table-reading, light-meter-waving photography professor before you can enjoy one.
Load film. Pick roughly how far away the subject is. Point it at something interesting.
And go on a Trip. 😁
So… did the Trip 35 bring YOU back to film photography, or had you never left?
🏈 ANOTHER FOOTBALL GAME — SHOT ON FILM
Following the Tennessee gallery we featured last week, From the Rumble Seat has done it again… this time photographing Georgia Tech v Mercer from the sidelines on 35mm.
The photographer used Kodak UltraMax 400, Portra 800 and even some expired Max 400, with the film developed and scanned by a local lab. From The Rumble Seat
Sports photography normally means enormous digital cameras firing at machine-gun speed. Doing it on film — where every press of the shutter costs money and you don’t know whether you nailed it until later… feels wonderfully contrary.
https://www.fromtherumbleseat.com/georgia-tech-football/37396/gt-vs-mercer-on-35mm
🔧 TRIP 35 WORKSHOP CORNER
A recent Reddit thread caught my attention: someone performing a home CLA on a Trip 35 accidentally broke one of the tiny brittle plastic lugs associated with the focusing assembly. Reddit
That’s a useful cautionary tale.
The Trip looks simple – and in many ways it is… but some of those 40–50-year-old internal parts are decidedly less enthusiastic about being disturbed than they once were.
The good news is that donor parts still exist.
The bad news is that “I’ll just take this bit apart…” are occasionally famous last words in the camera workshop. 😁
📸 FILM PHOTOGRAPHY AS A COMMUNITY, NOT JUST A PRODUCT
In Chattanooga this week, a free photography event included an introduction to film-camera technique and black-and-white development, followed the next day by cyanotype and darkroom-printing sessions. chattanoogapulse.com
It’s another small but encouraging sign that the current interest in analogue photography isn’t just about buying fashionable old cameras.
People want to understand the process as well.
And I rather like that. ❤️
🎞️ That’s this week’s Sunday Film Roll.
QUESTION OF THE WEEK:
If somebody offered you a free roll but insisted it had to be something you’d never shot before, what would you choose?
Redscale? Slide film? Infrared? Experimental film?
Or something considerably less frightening? 😁
Have A Nice Trip
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