lifeandmylens wrote:
These were like at 1/60 without mirror lockup, so a little blurry but I still like them.
Me too. But shooting an SLR makes me appreciate a few things about rangefinders, including the ability to shoot at low shutter speeds like 1/30 or 1/60 without worrying about mirror slap. And shooting with ND filters is easier with a rangefinder; with SLRs the image gets so dark you can't focus unless you focus first and put the filter on afterward.
Shooting on film cameras also feels liberating at times because I can shoot at high shutter speeds without having to think about whether I should disable EFCS like I do on a digital camera.
Do old-but-recently scanned film shots count as "recent film shots?"
I got rid of most of my old slides more than 10 years ago; most had faded badly. But I kept a few and scanned some yesterday. I think these were among the last rolls of Kodachrome 64 I shot in the mid 1980s; I switched to Agfachrome 100 after that as I liked the colours better.
Here are two photos I took on a trip to Scotland in 1987, Kodachrome 64, Pentax ME Super, kit 50mm lens. I have the second one labeled as "climbing Ben Nevis" but it might have been the Cuillins; I did climb Ben Nevis on that trip but also spent some time hiking in the Cuillins on Skye.
bjhurley wrote:
Me too. But shooting an SLR makes me appreciate a few things about rangefinders, including the ability to shoot at low shutter speeds like 1/30 or 1/60 without worrying about mirror slap. And shooting with ND filters is easier with a rangefinder; with SLRs the image gets so dark you can't focus unless you focus first and put the filter on afterward.
Shooting on film cameras also feels liberating at times because I can shoot at high shutter speeds without having to think about whether I should disable EFCS like I do on a digital camera.
Yes agree. I do however enjoy the process of shooting with an SLR over a rangefinder now and then. I love the Leica film M's, but for medium format I find myself gravitating towards the Hasselblad and not the Mamiya 7 for the different experience. I'll just have to remember to 800 speed film loaded!
Now that winter is approaching (for some of us), I tried to refresh myself on how to expose for shooting film photos in snowy landscapes. I always thought it was just a matter of overexposing by 1-2 stops, since light meters would read snow as middle gray, but once you start digging into it online the array of differing opinions on how to expose in snowy landscapes/cityscapes is just dizzying. Seems like using an incident meter is the most reliable, but I'm curious to hear what has worked for folks here.
bjhurley wrote:
Now that winter is approaching (for some of us), I tried to refresh myself on how to expose for shooting film photos in snowy landscapes. I always thought it was just a matter of overexposing by 1-2 stops, since light meters would read snow as middle gray, but once you start digging into it online the array of differing opinions on how to expose in snowy landscapes/cityscapes is just dizzying. Seems like using an incident meter is the most reliable, but I'm curious to hear what has worked for folks here.
madNbad wrote:
A few more from our trip to Depoe Bay.
M4-2, Voigtlander 35 1.4 Nokton Classic SC V2, 022 filter
Tri-X @ ISO 200, Film Photography Project FPP-76 1+1
