One Photograph: Fine Wine

After finishing off my last roll of color print film a few weeks ago, my focus has shifted to getting more satisfaction out of my black and white photography. Looking back through some photographs, I have to admit that I was really happy with the older Fuji Acros 100 emulsion. The image above was made with my Leica M2, 50mm rigid Summicron and some Acros I bought around 2014. I like the range of tones in this image. I think it was probably because I was shooting a lot of Acros at the time and feeling inspired by the Leica rangefinder. I was using one of my handheld Sekonic meters on this day. I also miss the original Agfa 100 APX film

Right now in the fridge, I have some Tri-X, the last of my frozen Plus-X, both speeds of T-Max, a few rolls of Kentmere Pan 100, Ilford HP5+, Ilford HP4+, quite a bit of Eastman 5222 and several rolls of Rollei RPX 100 and 400. I should also give the new Acros II a try.

I am going to work my way through this stash of film, go looking for light, have some fun, polish up my skills and maybe find a film I like as much as the old Acros.