Experimenting with The Black Stripe

Xpan

So to gather together an acceptable collection of photographs from the newly acquired Xpan isn’t proving all that easy. Experimentation is exciting though, and there are a few exemplars, since 35mm isn’t rated now, so far has digital squeezed film lovers away from the mundane. But I’ve wanted to travel this wide road since seeing Oliviero Toscani at it in a documentary about his notorious collaboration with Louis Bennetton.

Alternately deeply annoying and endearingly, brutally honest, Toscani influenced a whole generation of photographers and shocked and horrified the tabloids in the UK. It’s a great story, I’ll post the essay when I find it. But back to the camera. I am beginning to love it; I’m feeling that the coming months will show how much.

Loaded with ultra cheapo expired Konica 100 or 400, in rather finite supply, I’m leaving the exposure to Victor and unlike Toscani, desaturating everything in post. Not sure I like what I’m getting just yet. What’s more, I’m not expecting to like it any better anytime soon.

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