Slow Film Notes

A 35 mm notebook, kept slowly

Notes from the
bottom of a film bag.

A roll or two a month, written down before the negatives come back. Nothing technical, just what the light was doing and whether I liked it.

Recent contact sheet

six rolls · 2026
01 · 24A

Late ferry, harbour side

Kodak Gold 200 · Olympus OM-1 · Sep

02 · 11

Low sun on the cranes

Portra 400 · Nikon FE · Sep

03 · 07

Allotments in the rain

Ilford HP5+ · Pentax K1000 · Aug

04 · 19

Back garden, long grass

Fuji Superia · Canon AE-1 · Aug

05 · 33

Neon off the wet road

CineStill 800T · Nikon FE · Jul

06 · 02

Market morning

Fuji C200 · Canon AE-1 · Jul

From the notebook

unedited

Metering into the light

Kept overexposing the harbour frames by a stop on purpose. Gold takes it and gives back that warm haze on grey water I keep chasing. Two were soft, my fault, wide open at 1/30.

Pushing HP5 to 800

Forgot a faster stock, so I pushed. Contrast held up better than expected. The wet greenhouse glass and the shed doors were the whole roll, really.

Tungsten at night

First time out with 800T. The halation around the signs is the point, not a flaw. Cheap and honest colours the rest of the time.

About

A small notebook kept in the open since 2019. No presets, no reviews, no affiliate links.

Scanning

Everything scanned flat and left mostly alone. If a frame looks crooked it probably is.

Currently loaded

Portra 400 in the FE, half a roll of HP5 I keep forgetting about.