The beauty of 120 film.

A little while ago, I went to Albany for a short photo walk to give my Hasselblad a little exercise and to see what a roll of 2 year expired Ilford HP5 can do. The results speak for themselves:


I absolutely love the endless detail, especially at this little web size (you'll have to trust me when I say it gets better when you view this photo at 100% resolution. You can read the signs at the end of the street as if they were in front of you, even with 400 ISO grain)


The Empire State Plaza.


My wife actually had a better capture with her iPhone and Instagram. I'll go hide in a corner now.


Leading lines?


I might have to use this film for portraits.

First roll of medium format.

I'm ecstatic. My roll of HP5 was finally developed! This shot was my absolute favorite:



And then there's this:



The rest of the photos can be found here. A light leak in the spot where the dark slide goes in caused some interesting effects in some photos, others just got destroyed.

I can't wait to see what's on my roll of Provia 400.