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So I sent some film off to MPIX for development this time, mostly for their fast turnaround time. In predictable fashion, the post office lost my film for like a week just to make sure I didn’t enjoy an actually fast turnaround time.
I sent them a roll of Portra 800 and a roll of Cinestill 400D. I got an email yesterday saying the roll of Cinestill was totally blank, no exposures. Both were shot with the same camera so I guess I’ll just chalk that one up to me not knowing the camera very well and apparently loading it incorrectly. They did give me a refund for that roll, which is very nice of them considering it was my mistake.
Anyway, the roll of Portra DID have pictures on it. I’m reasonably sure these were all taken before I got the 50 f.14 lens, so I think they’re all with the 50 f1.8 Zuiko lens. We got a few different batches on this roll, first up, a standard for my photos, Ava being very cute.
Next up some pics of Daisy
Then a bunch of pictures that I took at the shop.
None of these are amazing but it was my first roll of film through the camera, and I’m still definitely learning. Some of the skills from digital photography transfer directly over, but getting good at manual focus and learning the limits of film cameras is still a learning curve. I’m definitely happiest with the outdoor photos, you can tell I could use more shutter speed, they’re much sharper. The colors overall are great, there’s a reason people like Kodak Portra.
Overall, pretty happy just to see some pictures from the Olympus, but I’m very excited to see some pictures from the 1.4 lens. I have already sent off yet ANOTHER batch of film, hopefully this time I loaded both rolls correctly.
