Exploring Ireland with KODAK Ultramax 400

[@FocalMatter]

Always wanted to visit, looks amazing and so so beautiful, you’ve captured you adventures really well, and looks so cool, love your outfits 🙌 I think these photographs look great, I’m not a big fan of ultra max … but you make it look so good

[@AroundGrizzly]

Ultramax is one of my favorite kinds of film

[@exploring_analog]

Same here! So reliable and natural looking. When in doubt I always know ultramax will do the job !!

[@cdavey7654]

Would love to visit there some day. Though, I'd probably spend most of my time in the country hiking and exploring the nature and scenic areas.. Not much for town/cities myself. Fwiw, I don't like having my cameras in the rain either.. 🙂📷

[@exploring_analog]

You will love it if you go! So much to explore there, the landscapes are just incredible!

[@akudashaku]

I think that you will diversify your camera collection in the future. Adding an all weather Olympus compact AF, auto load and auto aperature with flash for winter and rain. I currently have about 25 cameras. I am exposure testing 6 for a 35mmc article. Give yourself credit, I no longer shoot in the rain or winter. Last time I shot in the winter was in Colorado where it is almost always sunny.

[@exploring_analog]

Oh wow, 25 cameras! Yes I just got myself an AF point and shoot with flash and I already know this will be a life saver in so many situations. I am very attached to my first and only camera but being this minimalistic is not always the answer :D

[@akudashaku]

@@exploring_analog which p&s did you get?

[@exploring_analog]

@@akudashaku Nikon L35AF :)

[@outtathyme5679]

Do you take digital photos as well?

[@exploring_analog]

I don't unfortunately, looking into some DSLRs now because although I'm a film junky I really want to learn to shoot portraits for example and it would be a much quicker learning process with digital, as you have immediate feedback, more attempts etc.

[@theangrymarmot8336]

Photos were great, and even the ones you don't like serve as a reminder of the trip. I always laugh when I thumb through all the negative storage binders I have filled over the last two decades of shooting film - usually a roll or two a week. Everything from 110 to 4x5. Literally thousands and thousands of poorly planned, poorly executed, and poorly composed pictures that a large percentage have defects due to me poorly developing or scanning. Total and complete waste of money and effort to someone else - however I just embrace it and revel in the fun I have skewing the universal constant of "good."

[@exploring_analog]

You are so right! I never regretted a single penny I spent on film photography (except for the rolls that I completely messed up to the point of losing all photos haha) Some of the "worst" photos I end up really liking over time. And like you said, they are always memories, and they "store" these memories so much better than iphone photos, they take you right back into the moment. So even if its just for my eyes, I will always treasure them :)