{"id":1715,"date":"2024-01-04T06:00:27","date_gmt":"2024-01-04T11:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/07\/frugal-film-project-looking-back-looking-forward\/"},"modified":"2024-12-11T07:46:52","modified_gmt":"2024-12-11T12:46:52","slug":"frugal-film-project-2023-looking-back-looking-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alexluyckx.com\/blog\/2024\/01\/04\/frugal-film-project-2023-looking-back-looking-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Frugal Film Project 2023 – Looking Back, Looking Forward"},"content":{"rendered":"

Well, here we are at the start of a new year and looking back at last year’s outstanding Frugal Film Project! I had a lot more fun with this project, and it helped nurture my soft spot for consumer 1990s\/2000s SLRs. It’s funny; I never saw these as viable cameras before, yet they have a beautiful charm. You don’t have to worry too much because they can be a dime a dozen. Plus, they work with many lenses that most people use with their other autofocus systems. Canon, Nikon, Pentax, and Minolta (Sony) all have lenses that work on both digital (full-frame) and 35mm bodies. So let’s look back at 2023 and then forward to this year’s edition of the Frugal Film Project!<\/p>\n

Looking Back<\/strong>
\nFor 2023 my camera of choice was the Konica-Minolta Maxxum 70<\/a>, this was one of two final 35mm film SLRs from the company and while a bit more advanced than the lower end camera of the era, it still clocked in at under the price point and came with the less than stellar 28-100mm kit zoom lens<\/a>. My film of choice for the year was Arista EDU.Ultra 100, the house brand of Freestyle Photographic and rebadged Fomapan 100. Now the one thing I had a lot of fun with was picking the developer each month; I usually would tie this choice to whatever developer review I was working on that month, so it helped clear out some lingering bottles. I also tried to avoid repeating in the developer (except for Diafine because you can expose Arista to two ways of developing). Some produced good results, others less. The one thing I always found weird, with the FFP being on a monthly instead of weekly schedule, I often forget that I had completed the roll for that month and then sit around and go, ‘Oh yeah, I already did that.’ Here’s hoping having completed the project for the year that 2024 will be easier. The year wasn’t without trouble, of course, the summer this year proved to have some nasty weather, rain, storms, and oppressive heat, so I had to keep multiple ideas on what to do for the month. Sometimes I had three plans for the monthly roll. Then there was the matter of the lens breaking in April; the 28-100 isn’t known for its build quality. Thankfully I had a selection of A-Mount lenses that came to me with my 7000, so I switched to the 28mm f\/2.8 for a couple of months and used the 50mm f\/1.7 for an entry, which required a faster lens. But onto my top twelve images from last year!<\/p>\n

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In January I opened up the project with an introduction of my hometown of Milton, Ontario. This new mural in the Spice of Life Parkette in the historic downtown was recently redone and featured a subtle map of the historic core of Milton.
\nMinolta Maxxum 70 – Konica-Minolta Zoom AF 28-100mm 1:3.5-5.6 D – Arista EDU.Ultra 100 @ ASA-100 – Adox FX-39 II (1+9) 7:00 @ 20C<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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