Daniel Weber

Film photography, slow travel and the occasional darkroom experiment.

Shooting Portra 400 in grey winter light

Most people put Portra away when the days get short. I spent three weeks along the Baltic coast with nothing else, and the results surprised me.

Home-developing C-41 on a kitchen table

A temperature-controlled water bath, a cheap sous-vide stick and a lot of patience. Here's my setup and what went wrong the first five times.

Why I still carry a Pentax MX

Small, mechanical, and quiet. After a decade it remains the camera I grab when I don't want to think about the camera.