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!
- Javan Myna with Canon 3 Porta 400
- Asian Brown Flycatcher with Canon EOS 3 Kodak Portra 400
- Little Grebe with Canon EOS 3 Kodak Portra 400
- 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.