Color film photo, a black cat viewed from the side is staring into the camera, while passing next to a parked grey Volkswagen Polo 6R.

The cat and the Polo.

(Porto Levante, Italy - July 2025)

📷 Minolta XG-2, MD Rokkor 50mm f/1.7
🎞️ Kodak Colorplus, Cs41

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Color film photo, with a few scratches. A vintage SLR Minolta XD-11 film camera is laying on a few scraps of paper on a desk, next to a VK63-powered Speedmaster homage and a partly visible wireless computer mouse. In the background a blurry black keyboard and 4:3 computer display.

Emotional baggage.

(Home, July 2025)

📷 Minolta XG-2, MD Rokkor 50mm f/1.7
🎞️ Kodak Colorplus, Cs41

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Close-up photograph of a Minolta XD-7 camera. The prism house and lens are out of focus, but the shutter-speed wheel and the XD-7 logo are mostly sharp.

What better subject to test a new camera and film on, than an old camera? You take what you have, as they say over here.

📷 Minolta α-7
🔎 A 100/2.8 macro
🎞 Konica Centuria Super 400 (2007, EI 100)

#AnalogPhotography #MacroPhotography #ExpiredFilm #MinoltaGang

#MinoltaGang rise up!

Black and white film photo shot from an overpass above a railway. The metal railing and safety barrier has two signs attached to it, one is the generic electric hazard lighting sign, the other a metal plaque with a crossed bones skull and the Italian text "don't touch the wires - danger of death"

No touchy wires because bzzz kills.

📷 Minolta XG-2, Kalimar 28-200mm f/4-5.6
🎞️ Agfaphoto APX 100 @ EI200, HC-110B

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A 35mm black and white film photograph of a rotting old fence in the woodland.

New Blog Post
This week I talk about my March roll of 🎞️ Kentmere 400 shot with Donkey, my 📷 Minolta Dynax 4, for the Frugal Film Project 2026.

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Legittit #MinoltaGang

Color film photo of a lion sculpture made of red marble, sitting in a Venetian square (Piazza dei Leoncini) on a white marble elevated base. In the background, some slightly blurred buildings and the water well in the center of the square.

"Who's a good boy?"

(Minolta XD-11, Asanuma 35-105mm f/3.5, Kodak Colorplus @ EI400, Axelcolor C41 kit)

More at photos.ciarpa.me/20260314-venice/

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Color film photo showing the reflection of the photographer on a shop window. The photographer is a man in his mid 30s, dressed with a black shirt, and holding a vintage film SLR camera. In the background, a palace from St Mark's square in Venice, Italy.

Venetian window selfie while walking yesterday in St. Mark's square.
Possible new profile picture.

(Minolta XD-11, Asanuma 35-105mm f/3.5, Kodak Colorplus @ EI400, Axelcolor C41 kit)

#AnalogPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #FilmIsNotDead #MinoltaGang #selfie #Venice #35mm #Kodacolor

Black and white film photo. Close up of the exterior of an old house, showing exposed bricks, some of them consumed by time. A wooden closed window blind is also visible on the top center-right of the image.

The weird allure of bricks when photographed on black and white film.

(Minolta XG-2, Kalimar 28-200mm f/4-5.6, Fomapan 100, Rodinal 1:50)

#AnalogPhotography #FilmPhotography #35mm #MinoltaGang #Bricks #BelieveInFilm #FilmIsNotDead #Fomapan #Monochrome #BWphotography

Color film photo of a swampy lagoon, two flamingos are resting on the water, in the background some vegetation and a derelict building, in the foreground some slightly blurry vegetation and leaves.

Color film photo of a swampy lagoon, a flock of flamingos resting on the water, in the background some green vegetation, in the foreground some slightly blurry vegetation and leaves.

Color film photo of a swampy lagoon, a flock of flamingos resting on the water, in the background some green vegetation, in the foreground some other vegetation and leaves.

Color film photo of a swampy lagoon, a flock of flamingos resting on the water, in the background some green vegetation, in the foreground some slightly blurry vegetation and leaves.

"We're gonna need a longer lens" -me, looking at these June 2025 photos, thinking ahead to summer 2026

(Minolta XD-11, Asanuma 35-105mm f/3.5 w/2x teleconverter, Fuji 400, Cs41)

#AnalogPhotography #BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotograohy #FilmIsNotDead #MinoltaGang #flamingo #pink #birdwatching #nature

a 35mm black and white film photograph of a tree reaching for the warmth of the sunshine as it wakes up from it's winter slumber.

Reach For The Sky!
📷 Minolta Dynax 4
🎞️ Kentmere 400

#minoltadynax4 #minoltagang #kentmere400 #kentmerefilm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #shootfilmbenice #believeinfilm #photography #frugalfilmproject

A 35mm black and white film photograph of trees by the side of the farm road finally getting bathed in sunshine.

Roadside Trees
Minolta Dynax 4
Kentmere 400

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Black and white film photo of a kitchen table with a square-pattern cover. On the table a few items are visible: a Minolta XG-2 film SLR with a 50mm lens, a CPL filter, a Zippo-style lighter, and a lens cover. On the upper part of the photo, a closed Lenovo ThinkPad laptop is partly visible, as are a pair of glasses on the right. There are also scrap pieces of paper on the table, old sheets from a calendar, reading "Gennaio 2026"/"January 2026". In the upper left corner part of a chair is visible.

Tools of the trade.

(FED-5v, Industar-61 55mm f/2.8, Agfaphoto APX 100 @ EI200, HC-110 B)

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A 35mm black and white film photograph of snowdrops catching a little of the light that made the holly glow.

Snowdrops catching a little more light
Minolta Dynax 4
Kentmere 400

#minoltadynax4 #minoltagang #kentmere400 #kentmerefilm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #shootfilmbenice #believeinfilm #photography #frugalfilmproject

A 35mm black and white film photograph of Holly leaves glowing as they catch the first rays of sunshine I saw on my walk that day.

Holly
I was beginning to think the sun would elude me on this walk, then I saw this Holly bush glowing.
Minolta Dynax 4
Kentmere 400
#minoltadynax4 #minoltagang #kentmere400 #kentmerefilm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #shootfilmbenice #believeinfilm #photography #frugalfilmproject

Mirror Selfie
📷 Minolta Dynax 4
🎞️ Kentmere 400

#minoltadynax4 #minoltagang #kentmere400 #kentmerefilm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #shootfilmbenice #believeinfilm #photography #frugalfilmproject

A 35mm black and white film photograph of a conifer in my local woodland.

Conifer
📷 Minolta Dynax 4
🎞️ Kentmere 400

#minoltadynax4 #minoltagang #kentmere400 #kentmerefilm #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #shootfilmbenice #believeinfilm #photography #frugalfilmproject

Some more scenes from the @roadamerica Superbike races. Jun 2025. This time off-track.

📸: Minolta Maxxum 9000
🔭: Minolta 80-200 HS APO
🎞️: Expired Kodak 5062 Safety Film

#filmphotography #filmisnotdead #minolta #shootfilm #roadamerica #kodaksafetyfilm #minoltagang #expiredfilm

A 35mm film photograph of a stump and a sign at the entrance to the farm road near my home

New Blog Post
This week I talk about a wander in my local countryside with Donkey for the Frugal Film project 2026.

jimgravesphoto.blogspot.com/2026/03/frug...

Minolta Dynax 4
Kentmere 400
#minoltadynax4 #minoltagang #kentmere400 #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #believeinfilm #frugalfilmproject

Scenes from the Road America Superbike races. Jun 2025. Shot on decades expired Kodak 5062 Safety Film, which in 2025 needed to be shot at 12 iso

📸: Minolta Maxxum 9000
🔭: Minolta 80-210 HS APO

#filmphotography #filmisnotdead #minolta #shootfilm #roadamerica #kodaksafetyfilm #minoltagang

A close up view of a leaping Jaguar mascot of a XJS' bonnet, looking like it's jumping over a Jaguar logo. Both the car and the sky have an overall greenish tint.

Looks like a Jaguar
It's got leather seats
It's got a (aftermarket) CD player
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📷Minolta Dynax 800si
🔭Minolta AF 50mm f/1.7 RS
🎞Harman Phoenix II

#filmphotograhy #believeinfilm #minoltagang

A film photo tidal marsh near the ocean in new jersey. It's a black and white picture featuring a waterway with trees on this distant horizon.

Cattus Island Marsh and Clouds

📷: Minolta STsi, Maxxum 50mm f/1.7
🎞️: Ilford HP5+
📍: Cattus Island, Toms River, NJ

#photography #filmphotography #minoltagang #ilford #35mm #monochromemonday

#fomapan200 #film #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #35mm #35mmfilm #believeinfilm #blackandwhite
Flic Film Ultrapan 200 (Fomapan 200) shot with a Minolta X-700 #minoltagang #trichrome #trichromeeverything
First one that turned out, even though it is underexposed

#fomapan200 #film #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #35mm #35mmfilm #believeinfilm #blackandwhite
Flic Film Ultrapan 200 (Fomapan 200) shot with a Minolta X-700 #minoltagang

#fomapan200 #film #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #35mm #35mmfilm #believeinfilm #blackandwhite
Flic Film Ultrapan 200 (Fomapan 200) shot with a Minolta X-700 #minoltagang #cat #kitty #tortie

#fomapan200 #film #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #35mm #35mmfilm #believeinfilm #blackandwhite
Flic Film Ultrapan 200 (Fomapan 200) shot with a Minolta X-700 #minoltagang

#fomapan200 #film #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #35mm #35mmfilm #believeinfilm #blackandwhite
Flic Film Ultrapan 200 (Fomapan 200) shot with a Minolta X-700 #minoltagang #skate #easkate #skate4

#luckyfilm #film #filmphotography #filmisnotdead #35mm #35mmfilm #believeinfilm #blackandwhite
Lucky SHD 50 shot with a Minolta X-700 #minoltagang

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Lucky SHD 50 shot with a Minolta X-700 #minoltagang