About Hans ter Horst

I live in London at the moment, after having lived in Zutphen, Stockholm and Paris. I started photography in my teens and worked at a supermarket to be able to buy a Pentax ME which was the state of the art at that moment. I still have that camera and use it regularly and also use the lenses I bought for the ME on my more modern cameras occasionally. After having worked mostly in Digital for the past few years, I find myself going back to my roots and shooting on black and white film almost exclusively. At the moment I'm using Fuji Neopan 100 Acros, Fuji Neopan 400, Ilford FP4+, Ilford PAN-F films, but my absolute favourite is ADOX CHS ART 25 film for both 135 and 120 format.

So why do I prefer film above digital photography? The simple answer is that, being mainly interested in black and white, I think the results look better. I shot several years with different DSLRs with state of the art sensors, but didn't appreciate the Photoshop/Lightroom processing of black and white and somehow I got very sloppy. I do think that I take more care composing and spend more time on choosing the aperture and exposure when shooting film; whereas shooting in Digital, I would just take several shots with different exposures and intended to junk the ones I didn't like at home. But with all those shots, I somehow never ended up with that one shot that was special. Made me lazy and certainly not a better photographer, I think is what I want to say.
I really appreciate what some people are doing in colour but I never could reach those results. So going back to black and white film made me happy again, but why stop at film? Shouldn't I go back to daguerreotype photography or earlier? You might and there are plenty of people who do, but not for me at the moment.

Photographic Equipment

Cameras:
Pentax 645NII
Pentax 67II
Pentax K20D
Pentax MZ-S

Lenses:
Pentax 645 FA 75mm F/2.8
Pentax 645 FA 45mm f/2.8
Pentax 645 A 200mm f/4
SMC Pentax 67 55mm f/4
Sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 EX DG MACRO
Sigma 18-50mm f/2.8 EX DC MACRO
Sigma 20mm f/1.8 EX DG Aspherical
Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8 EX APO
Sigma 50mm f/2.8 EX MACRO
Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 EX DC
Lensbaby 2.0

Film:
Ilford PAN F  •  FP4 Plus  •  HP5 Plus
ADOX® CHS ART 25  •  CHS ART 50  •  CHS ART 100  (was Efke®)
EFKE IR820 AURA
Fuji Neopan Acros  •  Fuji Neopan 400

My classicss:
Pentax ME
Pentax MZ-3

SMC Pentax-M F/1.7 50mm
SMC Pentax-M F/2.8 28mm

Contact

Hans ter Horst

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