Why I’ll buy no more color films

I once more bought a cheap pack op 3 Fuji Superia 200 films about a month ago, and I got the negatives back today. Well, what do you want me to say… you won’t see any color photos here!

By the way, all pictures are taken with a crappy Canon SureShot AF7 that I sacrificed shortly afterwards to recover the wonderful, big, bright finder that’s in it. More of that later…160730 - Superia 200 - Canon SureShot AF7 - 015I scanned them and treated them to a round of Lightroom….. and I converted most to black and white! Continue reading “Why I’ll buy no more color films”

A Tale of Fifties

800px-Oskar_BarnackFifty millimetres, the so called ‘normal’ lens in 35mm photography. It’s a well known term, even in Inch-Countries.

Where does it come from? Apparently it’s the normal field of view of our eyes, but that’s just plain stupid. If we had a field of view of 50mm, we would be quite embarrassed and would have constant neck spasms from balancing our heads from right to left, up and down to scan our surroundings. Continue reading “A Tale of Fifties”

The Leica IIIa… at it again

Had a stroll in town today and brought back some photographs. This time the Summitar 50mm f:2 and a roll of Fomapan 400 came along. I definitely begin to like those Fomapan films!

And by the way, I’m slowly adapting to that squinty viewfinder. At least the framing is not too bad (not too many crops) and I manage to get the horizon quite straight, something I failed at with digital cameras and artificial horizons in the finder.. strange. Continue reading “The Leica IIIa… at it again”

A walk with my Leica IIIa

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Into the light

Took a walk this morning with my Leica IIIa and the Jupiter 8 I just got off eBay – for once a nice surprise from a russian seller. An utterly nice lens without any flaws (apart from those inherent to these lenses). Continue reading “A walk with my Leica IIIa”