Film, it’s overrated…

January 14, 2013 by Phil Kneen Photography

The day Kodak stop making Tri-X will be a very sad day indeed, there’s no other film like it. Fuji Neopan 1600 came close, and I did use it quite a bit, but it was discontinued a couple of years back and not replaced with anything even slightly similar. The thing I love about Tri-X is it’s ‘push-ability’, its box speed is 400iso, but I regularly shoot it at 800, 1600 and have gone as high as 3200 and still […]

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Black & White Strypes

December 4, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

I’d planned to get more shots of The Strypes, but on the day I was in the grips of a most hideous bout of the ‘flu, by the time they’d got into their second song at 9.45pm, I was on my way home to die. All of the shots below were made using a Nikon FM3a, 35mm f2 lens. I hung-around during sound-check, but only managed to shoot one roll of film, a single roll of Kodak Tri-X 400, pushed […]

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Bonzo

April 21, 2012 by Phil Kneen Photography

My new Epson V750 scanner arrived yesterday. The first thing I did was take to the negative carrier with a hacksaw and a file. These carriers are never quite big enough to scan full frame, so a bit of DIY is always required. This image of Bonzo was shot on a Mamiya 7II with 150mm lens using Kodak Tri-X rated at 800 ASA.

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