…if I should not try medium format one day.
OK, I already used medium format cameras, albeit crappy ones. I own an Agfa Synchro Box, a family heirloom. And also a Kodak Junior 620. The problem with those cameras are the following:
For anyone interested even only marginally in film photography, this is an absolute must-read!
Published by Steven Dowling of Kosmo-Photo fame, it is a very precise and comprehensive overview of the state of film photography, it’s future and it’s challenges. And well-written too.
Here’s a question I’d like to address to all you fellow bloggers out there!
How fast do you write?
I don’t mean the number of words per minute you type. What I’d like to know is how long does it take you to write a blog post?
For once this is something not (entirely) photography related! If you’re not interested in computers…. sorry, not for you. I’ll be back with photography stuff very soon.
It all began for me in 2006, when I bought my first iMac (the 17″ white plastic one. Apple calls it Polycarbonate, sounds noble. I have been an ardent defender of Macdom ever since! Call me a fanboy, I’m guilty of that, but I have my reasons.
I sold that iMac late last year, after 10 years of loyal services. And as far as I know it still works. Sure it’s usefulness had decreased by then. Older OS only, slow with newer software…. but it still worked for standard stuff.
He brightened your living-room for days. He spread joy and good vibes. He stood guard over your presents.
And now you will do THIS to him!
I have been looking through my photos of the past years (it’s end-of-year-retrospective-time anyways) and I stopped at some photos from November of 2012.
And no, they are not film photos!
These are photos I made with the Fuji X100 I had just bought (used) to once and for all replace my Canon DSLR gear I didn’t use much.
Not many words today, just remembering a great camera that I owned for a very short time in December 2016.
The Ricoh GR1
Shooting Film is said to be expensive!
And it’s true when you don’t take into account the initial cost of a good digital camera and the recurring costs for ever newer models thereafter.
Film cameras, with some exceptions (looking at you, Leica!) are cheap as chips for the most part if you don’t go for some models that are overhyped. Most can still be serviced if something is wrong with them and after all, most will survive us anyways.
Yes, yesterday I said gear was not important!
And yes, it’s not…. really!
But then again it can make you feel good and help you make nice photos. Last example for ‘feel-good-gear’ is my Asahi Pentax Spotmatic.
Continue reading “Simple Pleasures! Praise for the Asahi Pentax Spotmatic!”
I’ve noticed that it’s been one week since I annoyed you with a new post. This can not be! So I trawled my library, lacking recent shots thanks to my foot, and came up with a nice subject.
So you think you need the latest greatest cameras to do photography? Think again!
Just a short one today!
Just a selection I shot on HP5 last April. Of course the camera was Oskar the Leica IIIa.
The lens was my nice Summitar 50mm f:2.0. It’s not a sharp lens, it flares, is renders harsh light in some dreamy way, but I quite like it.
I can’t seem to get off the ‘Street Photography’ wagon right now that I’m still sitting at home, nursing my slowly healing foot… no way to get out and about with a camera.
Anyways, it’s raining cats. dogs and other strange things so I’m not too tempted today.
But while I wrote Saturday’s post, a question cropped up in my mind:
Does Street Photography have to be in black and white?
Frank Lehnen Photography 