A while back, I wrote a bit about my new 7Artisans, 50mm lens that I’d bought from Hamish and paired with my M6. That first trip out with it involved a wander around Oxford and as you might have read, I was very pleased with the results on film.
Ok, I’m cheating, this isn’t 5 frames it’s 4. But I only took 4, and they make a nice set… These were taken last summer in a bar in Waterloo at a Beers & Cameras meetup with my Leica M-A and 7Artisans 50mm f/1.1. I was quite drunk, and afterwards forgot I’d shot these. I assume my intention was to push the film, I’m not sure I did. One way or another they came out woefully underexposed. Still, with some careful scanning, and a fairly heavy dose of tweaking in Lightroom I managed to retrieve something of a picture from the very thin Ilford HP5+ negs.
I honestly don’t remember when or where I first came across the 35mm Holga adapter. The lime-green spacers had been 3D printed by a friend months previous, quickly relegated to the dusty collection of half-finished photo projects I kept on a bedroom shelf. But one summer weekend I got my act together and ran a roll through it.
Sometimes we get pockets of time, and these create adventures, discoveries. On a recent trip to North Carolina, decided to take a detour to a local camera store and see what they had in their “garbage” bins – boxes of as-is film photo gear. I always wanted to do a $100 exercise, walk in and …
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This Leica is the camera in my collection that seems to raise the most eyebrows. I’m going to write about using it properly sometime, but briefly, the questions I get asked the most are around the practicalities of shooting such an old camera. The beauty of it is – the thing that most people who …
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