Back in 2015, I decided on a whim to dabble a little bit in film photography. I got both a second hand Canon EOS 3 and a medium format Pentax camera from eBay. I remember them being pretty cheap as everyone was abandoning their film camera for the latest DSLRs then. I didn’t shoot much, and most of what I shot were family photos. But I did take it out on occasions to shoot with my 500mm lens on the Canon using Kodak Portra 400 film.
Here are a few of the photos that I managed to scan and process recently. Yes, it has taken about a decade for me to end my procrastination!
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- Javan Myna with Canon 3 Porta 400
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- Asian Brown Flycatcher with Canon EOS 3 Kodak Portra 400
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- Little Grebe with Canon EOS 3 Kodak Portra 400
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- Pin-tailed Whydah with Canon EOS 3 Kodak Portra 400
Maybe the quality of the photos were’t as good as that of the digital equivalent, but it was fun and educational at the same time. Just for a fun comparison, here’s the Little Grebe taken on the same day as the one with film, except it was captured with my Canon EOS 7D Mk2.
Little Grebe at Lorong Halus