Also loading of the thicker paper wasn’t an issue – I’ll try also 300g/m².No clogging so far, but I think I need to print on very regular basis. Loading of the ink wasn’t a problem at all.For a first testing a bought a package of 50 sheets Epson Archival Matte and a package of Canson RAG photographique (210 g/m²). In parallel I ordered the EB4 ink set at. Paul had a similar approach using an Epson WF-1100 (13 inch printer, unfortunately not available in Europe). I bought a small 4-ink printer with Eco-Tank ( Epson ET-2650) with the reasoning that 1 black and 3 different gray inks should be more than enough to get smooth grayscale tones. I didn’t want to start big and spend hundreds of Euro to find out that the results are under my expectations. I read a lot about carbon printing in particular at Paul Roark’s website, to whom I’m really thankful for his “open source” approach. I used for decades a darkroom but what to do with all the digital files? I often gave my pictures for printing to labs like or larger labs like and never really invested time in printing digital photo files myself.

Due to heavy size reduction (to 900×600 px) the grain cannot look really good. I use it to make prints of some of these photographs.

Some photographs have “heavy grain”, vignette and other analogue styling effects: I discovered a film grain simulation program published at the IPOL Journal.

You may see some colour photographs I have taken with my Fujifilm X-H1: I had this camera with its lenses in the trunk of my car before and after my walking stages.

Only a short telephoto lens like a 90mm was missing or could have been taken instead of the 35mm.Īnd the memories? Well judge by yourself: Beside a problem with the menu selection ring in the back, all survived without (big) damages. And if I need colour on the way, I’ll use my iPhone…īut it is reasonable to surcharge myself with ~1.7 kg of photography gear (including orange filters, battery charger etc)? Now back from this trip I can say yes! Even if the conditions were not that easy for the camera and lenses: A lot of dust, sun and some rain.

In this case I would go fo my “new” Leica M Monochrom! And take my three modern lenses: Elmar-M 24mm ASPH 1:3.8, Summicron-M 35mm ASPH 1:2.0 and Summicron-M 50mm 1:2.0. My son Nils said to me: Take the camera with you on this trip you would otherwise regret leaving at home… And pick up a challenge like black & white photography…

As I decided to spend 3 months in France and to walk along the wonderful coastal path GR34 as part of my sabbatical, I was wondering, how am I going to keep memory of that experience? Save weight and use my iPhone? Take a camera on top of all the equipment in my backpack (tent, sleeping bag, clothes, stove, food and water etc) that was already too heavy? And if yes which one? A small and lightweight one like my Fujifilm X100s? What an evidence! A pleonasm… Of course I can create memory with photography.

Old backpack purse with gutenprint