Film Reviews

This cradle is an awesome little docking station for this camera. It does everything you could ask from a dock. It charges, it transfers, and it stabilizes. Great overall - I give it an A.

I have used this film for several years now to photograph my artwork for professional slides. The slides are excellent and perfect for submission to galleries and juried competitions. I hang my painting level against a black velvet backdrop and angle two tungsten lights on either side for even lighting of my painting (with all lights out in the room). This film captures the essence, detail, and color clarity of my paintings. I have tried other slide film, but this, by far, gives me the truest color and finest detail

I've never tried this film in 35mm so I'm reviewing 120 roll film.

This is not a punchy film. If you want colors that pop than Fuji Superia or similar films are probably more apropriate.

Smooth accurate skin tones makes portraits with this film very flattering.

I shot at EI 400 and some of my shots looked a little underexposed. Others looked perfect so I'm not sure what the optimum EI is for this film yet. I'll experiment with EI 320 next time to see if my shots are more consistant.

Since I haven't made any blowups larger than 8x10" from my 6x7cm negatives I can't comment on grain. My enlargements are perfectly grain free but there isn't much magnification here.

its a good cheap Camera, it has 800 speed film in it so it will work all day even in cloud weather, and it can even work inside but it must be very well light.

Wow what a great idea. I'm now a regular user of Fuji One time use Cameras, they are great to take out with friends, parties, housewarmings, just about anywhere! The idea of buying these in bulk (10 pack) sounds good for the Photographer in your family!

Fuji makes great film that has natural-looking colors, and the price is always better than Kodak. I usually buy Kodak because I prefer buying American when the quality and price differences aren't so large. But for shooting nature, I do have a slight preference for Fuji.

FUJI Pro Grade VHS-C is one of the best tapes I have used, I am new to the camcording wrold and have used 3 other tapes so far but this is the best. It gives vivid colors and great pictures in normal house lighting, it looks so real and makes you look like a real profesional the first time you use it. I would highly recommend it to anyone useing VHS-C tapes. It is the only one I will buy from now on.

Im not Kidding, I just purchased new HP tower ($1g's worth) and needed to transfer all Files from laptop. I'm always a little apprehensive trying new tactics with computers that involves my stuff.
I simply inserted the 512MB into USB on lap,, and loaded all, not just hundreds like they mention, but over 3000 files.
The comeplete My Photo's album, all Microsoft Office Word files that were stuffed with sample images of products with descriptions.
I kept checking load after a heavy transfer to Stick,,,and just could not believe how well this worked.
I'm not into formatting hard drives. So this is by far the coolest thing since sliced bread.
The stick just loads itself as a open file ready to copy, clip, paste, anything You want on it.

First of all, this camera is intended to be fun, but can also be interesting. The camera is plastic. It is often full of light leaks that create odd irregularities in the photos. The lens is a cheap plastic that can cause distortions, generally fairly mild, in the photographs.

BUT, it uses medium format (120) film, and the fact that the negative is four times the size means that if you are careful you may find you get a photograph out of this camera better than the one that comes out of your 10 times the price 35 mm camera. To do so, you need to tape up the sides to minimize light leaks. Use black electrical tape.

Also realize that letting the light shine through can create some interesting pictures, and so try some without the tape, or with less tape. Also remove the square bracket inside that focuses the light on a neat rectangle, and instead you'll get vignetted photos that fade off on the sides.

Consider the cheaper model as well, the one that doesn't have the flash. The flash is difficult to use, and the batteries regularly fall out or come loose (go into a dark room to fix them!). I tape batteries in when I need to, and just don't use them when I'm outdoors.

Whatever you do, have fun, and do a search of "Holga" on the web -- you'll find a variety of websites devoted to this little babies.

ILFORD of the United Kingdom, long known for its excellent black and white films is the company that in the early 1980s developed "chromogenic" black and white films. Rather than use silver halide crystals which was th traditional method of manufacturing B&W film, which then require the use of developer, stop bath and fixing chemicals, ILFORD engineered this film around the use of colored dyes, much as regular color film is manufactured.

Successful in this effort, chromogenic B&W films are then capable of being developed in color chemistry, specifically the C-41 process. This film, like the offerings from ILFORD's competitors, KODAK and KONICA MUST NOT be developed in traditional black and white chemicals.

All chromogenic black and white films currently available are rated at ISO 400. Despite the relatively fast speed, all of those on the marketed are very fine grained and offer varying degrees of contrast. This film is no exception.

Chromogenic B&W films offer the convenience and cost effectiveness of being able to be developed by any local 1 hour lab. The key to that is the C-41 processing and the fact that the user will get B&W images even when they are printed on color paper. Some folks ho have used this film and its competition have commented on the fact that they have notice "color" shifts toward sepia, magenta or blue/gray. Part of that is the result of the technology of the film, part is the use of color paper to develop the images and the final part is the level of time and effort expended by the lab technician when the film is processed.

To completely eliminate any possibility of color shift, ask the lab to print using black and white paper. Doing so eliminates any possibility of color shift and the user then receives fine grained, very sharp, contrasty "black & white" photos.

The direct competition from KODAK includes: Kodak Black and White + (the consumer grade film), T400CN (the professional film) and PORTRA 400 (a professional chromogenic B&W portrait film often used at weddings).

KONICA's offering is known as MONOCHROME VX.

These are interesting, useful and convenient films and they also serve as a new way to "re-discover" the elegance and drama of black and white photography.

I recommend ILFORD's XP-2 Super. Try it, experiment with different color and black and white paper(s) and you'll be able to explore new roads of photographic discovery.