{"id":3172,"date":"2010-04-17T18:13:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-17T10:13:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/?p=3172"},"modified":"2010-04-25T23:29:35","modified_gmt":"2010-04-25T15:29:35","slug":"re-loving-black-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=3172","title":{"rendered":"Re-loving Black &#038; White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A roll of Neopan 1600 was stuck in my good ol&#8217; Nikon FA for the longest time. After scanning these shots, I realised that some of them were from a long time back &#8230; when I was having some pints of icy cold Guinness at an Irish bar during the afternoon (yeah &#8230; it felt like a blackout when I stepped outta the pub). I left that roll fermenting in the camera until lately when I bought the pancake Nikon 45mm f2.8P lens and wanted to test drive it. These photos were taken with both the Nikon 45mm and also a CZ 50mm f1.4 lens.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/nikon-fa-neopan-1600-randoms-apr-2010\/25.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The thing with this camera is that it doesn&#8217;t have that little window at the back to let us peep at what film was loaded (or was any film loaded) and so due to my old fading memory &#8230; I opened up the back (and screamed some 4 letter word) &#8230; to realise that there is a roll of Neopan in it! Damn! Thus some of those shots went dead but fortunately the surviving ones are of quite a good number. Phew!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I just found some time to scan these a while ago after coming back from a short chat with friends over some beer. I&#8217;ve some meatballs cooking in the kitchen while I&#8217;m typing this &#8230; so I&#8217;ve to keep it real short and make a dash back to finish cooking dinner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/nikon-fa-neopan-1600-randoms-apr-2010\/8.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I seldom shoot black &amp; white film because if the trouble of having to run to the lab twice (I usually get my colored rolls developed and collected in an hour) but then &#8230; suddenly I&#8217;m very much inspired to shoot more b&amp;w film. Like what many has told me &#8230; there ain&#8217;t nothing that can replicate the feel that&#8217;s produced by &#8216;real&#8217; (ie. not those C41 ones like BW400CN) b&amp;w film. I couldn&#8217;t agree more.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/nikon-fa-neopan-1600-randoms-apr-2010\/23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You probably realise that most of these shots were either taken during booze sessions, eating sessions or when I&#8217;m out having fun with Fitzand at the toy museum. \ud83d\ude00 I love having photos like these that reminds me of the good times (not that there ain&#8217;t good time anymore) and make me smile (or thirst for a pint of cold beer).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ndroo.com\/blog\/wp-content\/gallery\/nikon-fa-neopan-1600-randoms-apr-2010\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;m very happy to see the results from this roll after a disaster-struck roll on my Holga WPC. Now I&#8217;m tempted to stock up a couple rolls of b&amp;w film for my Tokyo trip next week. Hmm &#8230; or should I stock up the film when I&#8217;m there? I&#8217;m a <span style=\"text-decoration: line-through;\">little<\/span> very afraid to step into the camera shops there!<\/p>ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A roll of Neopan 1600 was stuck in my good ol&#8217; Nikon FA for the longest time. After scanning these shots, I realised that some of them were from a long time back &#8230; when I was having some pints of icy cold Guinness at an Irish bar during the &#8230; <\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more-link bs-book_btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/?p=3172\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[389,815,52,1593,351,1594,88,164,1572,689,1507,1506,1002,799,1470,20],"class_list":["post-3172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun-with-film","tag-black-and-white","tag-drink","tag-film","tag-guinness","tag-iso1600","tag-lab","tag-lens","tag-museum","tag-neopan","tag-nikon","tag-nikon-fa","tag-pancake","tag-pub","tag-scan","tag-stout","tag-toy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fuzzyeyeballs.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}