Color with my Pentax 67

A gardener at OKC Farmer’s Market waters plants early in the morning to beat the heat. He has been working here for over 25 years.

I decided to start shooting color again with my film cameras and started with my Pentax 67 and Kodak Portra 160. I used to shoot a lot of Kodak E100 slide film when I first started with photography. I used a Jobo processor to process my own E6 slide film and the occasional C41 negative film. But once I got fully involved in digital photography, I sold many of my film cameras and my Jobo processor. Wrong move. Now 20 years later I am shooting film again and decided to start shooting C41 color negative film.

I talked to this gentleman as he watered the flowers. He seemed happy to have someone to talk to before he opened in the morning.

The challenge is not taking pictures. The challenge in shooting color film is in development. Luckily a company named Cinestill has made this much easier and provided an affordable option for amateur film photographers like me.

Iconic OKC Farmer’s Market in the early morning hours.

So I shot a roll of Kodak Portra 160 color negative film through my Pentax 67. I ended up having the film developed at Bedford Cameras in OKC since my Cinestill heater arrived DOA. I scanned the negatives on my Epson V750 film scanner and was really happy with the results.