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Darkroom night

Tonight I went to the darkroom just to develop one roll of t-max 100 film from the Mamiya 7. Relax, fun, quiet: everything I could ask for. I’m happy that I went even if it was raining and I wasn’t feeling safe on my bike. Photo geek note: I’m in love with my Kodak Process [...]

Posted on 04 October 2011 † Matteo § English § Nerd § Personal ‡ Comments (0) °

There’s a light in the dark(room)

I’m just back from a printing session in the AS220 Paul Krot Darkroom. I’m just back from four hours of fun. I stink now. I stink of chemicals. I stink of light. My last time in the darkroom was I don’t even know how far in the past, around 18 months probably. My technique is [...]

Posted on 23 August 2011 † Matteo § English ‡ Comments (0) °

Using a 28mm is hard

Brief update: in the end I did not enter the contest for the LEICA Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award, contrary from what I said a month ago or so. I just had no time to work on my pictures so well, here go my chances of taking part to it, given that I will not be [...]

Posted on 11 March 2011 † Matteo § English ‡ Comments (0) °

Taking it to a new level

I just decided, after having received the LEICA Newsletter this morning, that I will enter the competition for the LEICA Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award, a photographic contest organized by LEICA reserved for 25 years old (and younger) photographers. Given that I turned 25 just few days ago, I am eligible . Although I almost surely [...]

Posted on 03 February 2011 † Matteo § English ‡ Comments (1) °

Disorientato

Nei primi mesi d’America mi è capitato spesso di non sapere in quale negozio acquistare certi prodotti. Negli Stati Uniti, o almeno dove sto io, non esistono più alcuni tipi di attività commerciale che personalmente ritengo ancora comuni e diffuse in Italia: edicole, tabaccai, mercerie, cartolerie, e tutti quei negozi solitamente gestiti da marito e [...]

Posted on 12 January 2011 † Matteo § Italiano § Personal ‡ Comments (7) °

On film scanning

Learning how to use a film scanner is not hard but really time-consuming. You have to try different pieces of software, read documentation, read blogs and forums and group discussions on flickr, ask other people and, eventually, scan scan scan. I bought my Epson Perfection V700 in September, tired of shooting a lot of film [...]

Posted on 23 November 2010 † Matteo § English § Nerd ‡ Comments (0) °

Scanning film

I spent most of my day doing laundry and scanning film on my Epson V700. Some of the pictures are totally new for me: I shoot much more than I can print so I’ve never seen some of the pictures before, except enlarged with an 8x lupe from the negative or from the few contact [...]

Posted on 17 October 2010 † Matteo § English ‡ Comments (2) °

2 Libri

Oggi, passando davanti ad una libreria, non ho resistito. Sul tavolo davanti all’ingresso c’erano mucchi di Economica Laterza. Ho preso “L’uomo medievale”, curato da Jacques Le Goff. 6 euro e novantanove per un po’ di sano buon medioevo marxista. Dentro, libri Taschen a 9.99. Incerto per un po’ tra Brassaï e Sieff, che non avevo [...]

Posted on 14 September 2010 † Matteo § Italiano § Misc § Personal ‡ Comments (1) °

“Mrs. Robinson, would you like to go to a movie?”

Stasera, ho tirato su una pasta aglio e olio, peperoncino e un po’ di grana. Mentre cucinavo, mi sono messo a guardare “Il Laureato” in inglese. Come antipasto, una scatola di acciughe. È possibile sentirsi così vivi senza aver bisogno di altro che di normali azioni straordinarie ? Era tutto così comune e peculiare che [...]

Posted on 18 April 2010 † Matteo § Italiano § Personal ‡ Comments (6) °

Pimp my M6TTL!

Con il mio primo stipendio (sì l’*intero* mio primo stipendio) mi sono regalato una Leica M6TTL (e così ora mi ritrovo con 3 Leica…bella malattia la “Leichite perforante al portafoglio“…) Questo post potrebbe anche avere i seguenti titoli: “Come migliorare o distruggere una M6TTL” o “Cose che farei alla mia M6TTL se il mio conto [...]

Posted on 25 November 2009 † Matteo § Italiano § Misc ‡ Comments (1) °