Having multiple cameras and camera systems brings you without fail to owning multiple lenses of the same focal length – unless you concentrate on compact cameras with fixed lenses of course.
I reduced my camera stable to Pentax M42 and Leica M39 thread mount stuff. But of course for each systems I have a selection of the compulsory 50mm lenses. Not a comprehensive collection but only four in fact I got hold of over the past months and years.
…thanks to Fujifilm!
Agfa Vista, OK it was not the best loved and best looking film around, but it was among the cheapest to be had. And frankly, the quality was not too shabby!
I admit… this is digital!
Yes, there it is, that ugly word! But these are photos anyways.
And I wanted to grab the opportunity to compare them to the same subjects, treated with film.
Nothing fancy today, just three snaps I made the other day in Luxembourg City, on a very nice, cold and sunny winter’s day.
First one is kind of a Luxembourgish insider thing. Get it?
I think it was good old Ansel Adams
who said that ‘the best camera is the one you have with you’
Heaven forbid that I could doubt the wisdom of such a master photographer, but in this point, to my very humble opinion, I think he was wrong.
In many years of G.A.S. driven camera changes I have noticed one thing. It might only be true for myself but I think it’s pretty relevant.
If the best camera was the one that’s always with me I’d need no specific camera!
Continue reading “The Best Camera is NOT the one You have with You!”
…you can get bitterly disappointed!
I made the experience just now. One of my three remaining ‘trusty’ cameras has just given up on me.
Bummer it’s the beautiful Spotmatic…
…and no, this is not about the use of these two film types. This is rather about how I process the negatives. More precisely about the difference of said processing.
As you might know, despite a nice and promising test with bathroom-turned-darkroom-printing some months back, time and space force me to rely on scanning my negatives. I would have loved to push with wet printing on and refine my technique (or try to even work out a technique in a first time) but it is simply not doable.
So it was back to scanning. A little less time consuming as darkroom work and much easier on the other people of my household who can use the bathroom as needed.
While I’m working on a longish post detailing my processing I just wanted to ramble on a bit about my perception of Winter’s Colors.
My last post got some nice comments, and one of them, by ronian42 reminded me that winter is also the moment of nice, bright, low sunlight, lending structure and definition to any mundane objects.
How very true!
Seems that at last this wet and sloppy winter is starting to go away.
Of course it will try to show that it’s still with us for some time, but it’s certainly on the way out.
So some of you wanted me to make more snow photos in the comments to this post…
Of course I will comply. I will do anything for you… within limits. And the limits were quite surpassed this morning.
Frank Lehnen Photography 