I love the Nikon F2. It is stout and sure. The marine and outdoor images were shot with a Nikkor 55 mm F2.8 macro lens that doubles well as a general purpose lens. The shadow images and travel-lift bands were taken with a Pentax Spotmatic, 135 F 3.5 lens. These cameras are both rich…
Before we start, I thought you might be interested in this. It’s a piece on why the results that we enjoy from film are not the same as shooting digital and then adding effects. It’s one of the best explanations of a subject that I’ve always found difficult to pin down. See what you think:…
In week 9 I was a little under the weather. That’s why I wanted to go away for the weekend; I was wondering if a change of scenery would be the cure to my winter blues. I ended up booking a hotel in Duisburg, Germany. My husband and I had been there before. It’s within…
One of my favorite B&W films from last year’s 52 rolls was Fujifilm Neopan 100 Acros. I loved the tonal range in other people’s photographs. Since I had never tried it, I decided to get a five pack and conduct a direct comparison with Ilford Delta 100 Pro. Unfortunately I had a developing issue and…
A Panorama Adventure Part II: Color images from the Horizon Perfekt. You can view side by side comparisons of the viewing range for the Horizon vs. Mamiya 7 35 mm panorama insert HERE. Some unfortunate streaking which could be due to scanning or development. But since I’ve never had this problem with my Color Lab…
Very busy week so I’m combining weeks 14 and 15.Headed down to Washington D.C. for the cherry blossom parade, unfortunately there were no cherry blossoms because of the weather. First shots were around the Hotel when I went for a walk and inside the Pentagon City Mall…. These all btw were taken with my yashica…
Kate is back from Dubai, so a few of us got together for lunch & shooting. I wanted to finish a roll in my Canon 7s. I forgot how ridiculously wide the Voigtlander 15mm lens is. It’s about 2x as wide as I remembered. It was fun, and fortunately not too many people around.…
Some weeks it seems like none of the rolls I shoot are worth writing about. Sometimes I stop by my favorite camera store on the way home from work just to dig through their stash of expired film. Occasionally an interesting roll bubbles to the surface like an old bone from the La Brea tar…
Last weekend, I took a trip up to Derby to see the biennial Format Festival. As usual, it’s an excellent show with a real variety of artists and locations in which to see the work. There is a limited amount of that awful ‘photographic art’ at the festival (think BJP cover with a skinny, ill looking woman…
Back a few weeks ago we decided to head over to the Rocky Mountain Arsenal for a few hours of shooting. I’d been there many times before and we looking for particular shots, such as these stairs to no where. To finish off the roll I went up to Boulder to shoot a couple of…
A Panorama Adventure Part I: When I started my Mamiya 7 feeding frenzy I saw a 35 mm Panorama insert on line and said, ‘what the heck, buy it and try it’. It didn’t cost much (Compared to all the Mamiya 7 kit) I had so no harm done to the finances. Sorry I didn’t…
An amalgamation of shots from 2 cameras. Mostly from Contax T2 but the brighter ones are from Leica M3. I will supplement this post later with the film used, one of the films was one I have never seen before…..I accumulated quite a few rolls and the poor quality overall was quite discouraging to…
52 rolls 