Slowing Down In Greece With the Leica M3 - Part 1
I traveled to Greece in the summer of 2026 with my wife for our honeymoon. A trip to remember, I intended to slow down for this trip. I knew I would have a camera with me for this trip, but I wanted to do something special, so I decided to capture our memories on film primarily. We split our time between Athens, Santorini and Paros.
As far as kit goes, these images were taken with my Leica M3. I used a vintage Leica Summaron 35mm F2.8 for the majority of these photos, however I also brought along the amazing Voigtlander 50mm APO. More on that lens later. After some bit of research, I decided Kodak Vision3 250D cinema film was possibly one of the right film stocks to capture the beautiful Aegean scenery.
The images were developed and then scanned using my Leica SL2-S and the Valoi Easy35 V2 film scanning kit. The scans were processed using Capture One’s newest film negative conversion workflow. This process was very easy once set up with a short learning curve, and the editing experience in Capture One is wonderful.
Paros
One particular trait of Kodak 250D that attracted me is the opinion that it is easy to work with and grade in a digital editing workflow. My hope for this process was to end up with a nostalgic, cinematic look. I do think that this film stock very much delivers on that expectation, really emphasizing the beautiful light Greece offers. I also want to point out that these images are indeed technically flawed, with some obvious blemishes on one of the rolls in the development process that I chose to just embrace the process. Additionally, there was a stray hair that had found its way into my Leica M3 that I did not catch and later had to edit out in the digital scans. Did I mention that this was my first trip shooting film?
