Third RF Roll

Busy track.

Alfie. Lokking a bit rough due to dodgy haircut.

Couple of Seagulls

Railings.


I toned down the inversions for the next roll, which is hanging up to dry. I had not taken the Bessa out of Patcham until yesterday, so Roll 4 may have something a little more interesting.
I really do not know what I would classify myself as, I am not too keen on shoving a camera in a strangers face, so "street" is out, I am way to sloopy for fine art, not to mention clueless as to what this means, only that Fine suggests a lot less hair and dust on the negatives. I like hidden spaces, allyways, paths, courtyards, and the backs of places, the working bits behind the glitzy front.
Mostly I like taking pictures of life as it is now.

Second Rangefinder roll

Alfie with Son

Kids

Industrial words

Nature Walk

More Fomapan, pictures not outstanding, but useful to me, and I enjoy taking them!

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Size matters?

R3a and Nikon D80 with 18-70 Nikkor.
Like apples and oranges, they are totally different.
Image as indication of relative size.
And,
2nd roll finished and hanging up to dry. Only got two films through so far, but I do like the compact size, and the simple controls. Not a menu in sight.

First roll

Deck based washing basketLadies Mile road, Brighton

Patcham clock

The dog, Alfie.

Fomapan 100, processed in APH09, about 7mins at about 20c. Quick rinse in water, cheapo fix for 2mins, 10 mins wash in running water, drop of wetting agent at the end. hung in warm summer breeze, diagonally, for about an hour. Once dry, chopped to fit negative file , and scanned in bottom of the market flat bed scanner. Dust provided by dog.

Rangefinder!

A new film camera, in 2008? Am I mad?
I believe not.
I like the feel of film, its a nice tactile medium. It also has the suspense and surprise that instant playback and review lacks.
This is a rangefinder camera, close in size to a compact camera, but with interchangable lenses, an accurate rangefinder focus system, and it uses film.
Negatives and slides are great, they are easy to view, easy to store, and provided I dont loose them, should be viewable in twenty years time, when DVD's and CD's are a closed optical disc thingy.
I have been scanning some slides taken by my grandfather, forty to forty five years ago. Makes you wonder why your taking pictures, if they are to be so fleeting.
I am not abandonning my DSLR, but I dont think I'd replace it either.

Camera of choice, a Voigtlander Bessa R3A.
lens, a 40mm standard lens.
Film, fomapan, a lovely smooth black and white film.

28.5.08

Trying to make sense of the chaos.
I am not a gifted Gardener. I am however, rather pleased with this effort. Its the start of a veg bed. No idea what to do next, thats Mrs G's department. I suppose its a question of extending it, and clearing the junk that lurks just out of shot.

27.5.08

A trip into town for a frozen food shopping fest. I have a thing about price of petrol at the moment, so Mrs G is encouraged to shop in bulk. When we dragged our supplies back to the car, I was delighted to see a Morris Traveller parked next to our ride. I got to thinking, its 2/3rds the size of our car, but ticks all the boxes....seats 4 in a degree of comfort, it's an estate car, so Alfie is catered for, it has a smaller engine, but adaquate power, good visibility all round. It is not stuffed with dubious engine management systems, electric windows, air conditionning, exploding steering wheel, dashboard luminance control etcetc. If it goes wrong, I strongly suspect a 13mm spanner, and a hammer is about all thats required to fix it.
Prehaps I am a fool, but is there not a market for something simple like this?

The reality is, it has more rust than the titanic, rot on the wooden rear frame, and from distant memory, was not that easy to work on.

Oh well, back to the Vauxhall .....