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”

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”

No, it’s not Creamy, definitely, it’s rather nicely contrasy and quite fine grained and sharp.

I developed this roll of Fomapan 100, shot with my trusty Olympus XA2, in Rodinal, 50 + 1 dilution for 9 minutes. Then I scanned it on my Plustek 8100 and got these quite good looking results. Continue reading “A roll of Fomapan 100”

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I finally came around to developing the first film that were not only test images for my Leica IIIa.

All shot on Fomapan 100, a film I’m not sure I like, really. Too bad, as it’s real cheap….

The lens I used is my Summitar 50mm f:2.0, slightly hazy and with a nice scratch on the front lens. Anyways, it produces nice pictures I think, and has a fine swirly bokeh as seen here:

Continue reading “Leica IIIa, first real images….”

Hey guys, this is hot news! I have some inside information from The Impossible Project, and they are about to launch a stunning new model of their new Impossible I-1 camera. I don’t know when this will be released yet, but apparently it is in production already! So all stand up and give a hand to: THE NEW IMPOSSIBLE I-1p Obviously, the ‘p’ stands for … Continue reading Sneak Preview! The new Impossible Project I-1p

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I received a mail today, a mail from MINT, the guys behind such gorgeous things as the refurbished Polaroid SX70’s with shutter speed control and the InstantFlex TL70 camera using Fuji’s Instax Mini format.

The ad features this picture prominently:

Continue reading “What does MINT have in store for us?”

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I love 35mmc!

This is a blog maintained by Hamish Gill, photographer and blogger, I visit daily – lots of times! This is a blog for which I have written some posts. And this is a blog that has given me much, has taught me a lot and always from kind and friendly viewers.

35mmc is a high point of photography blogs, no animosity, no harsh words – great, simply great. A lot of information, of great written posts by Hamish, the owner and other members. Continue reading “The photographic community – as varied as humanity itself!”