Nepal Travel Story by Roman Polenin

Today, we’re featuring a beautiful Nepal travel story from Roman Polenin. Here is more from Roman about capturing the mountain ranges of Nepal on slide film…

As a mountain-hike lover, my biggest dream was to visit Nepal. This is a land of hikes, this is a land of the highest mountains on our planet with which I just fell in love.

I’ve walked more than 200 km in the Himalayas, crossed the Manaslu Ring (5106m), the Annapurna Ring (5415m), base camp of Mardi Himal (4500m), and Everest (5364m), climbed the summit of Kala Patar (5647m), and visited other amazing places of the country which I want to share.

In this trip I decided to try a slide film, and I chose Kodak E100 and Fuji Provia 100F. I took with me a medium format Yashica mat 124G and a 35mm Canon 7. For me It’s very important to have a full manual mechanic cameras to have a better control in different situations (even in cold weather where batteries could die).

It came out just fantastic for me. The details on a slide film are fascinating. It’s necessary to have a light meter when you are shooting a slide film because of it’s low dynamic range. It can handle only two stops of overexposing. More than this and the whites will start to vanish and you will lose detail.

So if you treat this film well – you will be rewarded with a whole lot of details and colors, which is perfect for a landscape photography. Actually it’s not too hard: just meter the whites and place them in a Zone VII which is +2 stops, 1 degree spot meter will help you.

Analog cameras and films used: Yashica Mat 124G (Find at KEH Camera or on eBay), Canon 7 (Find on eBay) | Kodak E100 (Find on Amazon), Fuji Provia 100F (Find on Amazon)

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