Halide House

Halide House

Shot on film, developed by hand.

A roll fresh off the reel, on the lab bench

Loaded · HALIDE 400 · SAFETY FILMFrame 1 / 12 · scroll to wind on

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Film · ISO 200 · 35mm

Saffron 200

₹1,150Details
The contact sheet

Choose your stock

Everything we sell sits on one of four sheets. Circle one and the shop shows only what is on it.

The fridge

On the shelf this week

Twelve things on the shelf: our film, cameras off the service bench, and what you need for the dark. Every camera is one of one.

12exp.
Saffron 200

FilmISO 20035mm36 exp

Saffron 200

₹1,150

ColourColour negative · C-41

A warm, forgiving daylight film for long afternoons. Skin goes golden, brick goes deep and the sky keeps its blue.

Monsoon 400

FilmISO 40035mm36 exp

Monsoon 400

₹1,350

ColourColour negative · C-41

Our everyday colour stock. Enough speed for a grey July morning, fine enough grain to print big.

Lamplight 800

FilmISO 80035mm36 exp

ColourColour negative · C-41

For streetlights, puja pandals and wedding halls. Pushes one stop happily and keeps the reds clean.

Hooghly 100

FilmISO 10035mm36 exp

Black & whitePanchromatic · fine grain

A slow, sharp black and white for bright days on the river. Deep blacks, long tones, prints like silk.

College Street 400

FilmISO 40012012 exp

Black & whitePanchromatic · medium format

Classic grain and real latitude, on 120 roll film. Twelve square frames for twelve careful pictures.

Night Tram 3200

FilmISO 320035mm36 exp

Black & whiteHigh speed · push to 6400

For the last tram home and the rooms with one bulb. Big, beautiful grain and shadows that still hold.

Rangefinder 35

CameraISO 25–40035mm36 exp

CamerasServiced · 50 mm f/2

A quiet, all-metal rangefinder from the 1960s. Shutter cleaned and timed, rangefinder aligned, seals replaced by hand.

SLR with 50 mm

CameraISO 25–320035mm36 exp

CamerasServiced · 50 mm f/1.8

A fully mechanical SLR with a bright finder and a lens that renders softly wide open. The camera most of us learnt on.

Waist-level 6×6

CameraISO 25–160012012 exp

CamerasServiced · 80 mm f/2.8

A medium-format body you look down into. The world turns square and reversed, and you slow right down.

Cutting & Sleeving Kit

DarkroomISO Any35mm & 12036 exp

DarkroomScissors · 25 archival sleeves

Curved film scissors, cotton gloves and twenty-five acid-free sleeves that hold a full roll in strips of six.

Bulk Loading Kit

DarkroomISO 10035mm36 exp

Darkroom30 m of Hooghly 100 · 10 cassettes

Thirty metres of our slow black and white on a spool, ten reloadable cassettes and a tape. About eighteen rolls for the price of twelve.

Develop & Scan, one roll

DarkroomISO Any35mm / 12036 exp

DarkroomColour or B&W · hi-res scans

Post us a roll or drop it at either counter. We develop by hand in Kolkata and send scans, then your negatives home in sleeves.

Light meter

Meter the light, pick the film

Choose your film speed and the light you are shooting in. The needle reads the exposure, and the shop shows the stocks rated for it.

6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20 22 EV · ISO 400
Setf/16 · 1/500

or f/11 · 1/1000
or f/8 · 1/2000

Film speed (ISO)
The light
Aperture
In the shop at this speed

Stocks rated ISO 400.

The sunny 16 rule: on a bright day, set f/16 and a shutter speed of one over your film speed. Every step darker opens the lens a stop. Negative film forgives a stop either way — if in doubt, give it more light.

Developer · 20 °C
In the darkroom

How a roll comes back to you

Scroll, and watch a print come up in the tray while your film goes through the same five steps.

  1. 01

    Load in the dark

    Lights off. The film comes out of its cassette and onto a steel reel by feel, then into a light-tight tank.

  2. 02

    Develop

    Developer at twenty degrees, timed to the second and turned by hand every minute. This is where the picture appears.

  3. 03

    Stop

    Thirty seconds in the stop bath halts the developer, so nothing goes on growing after we say it is done.

  4. 04

    Fix

    The fixer clears what the light did not touch, and the film is safe to see. The lid comes off.

  5. 05

    Wash, dry, scan

    A long wash, a night hanging in the drying cabinet, then every frame is scanned and the strips are sleeved for you.

Window light, College Street
From the lab

How we look after your film

From the sleeves

Visit the lab

Bring us a roll

Drop film at either counter or post it to the lab. Write to us about a camera you want serviced, a push or pull, or a stock you cannot find.

The counter
Shop 14, Lamington Road, Grant Road East, Mumbai 400007
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