Snapshot Focusing
Messing around with medium format in the backyard. With beer and Instamatics, natch.
film photography
Agfa Plus 200
You know what I love about this roll of Agfa? The popping-bright reds. It’s really great.
Shot this roll mainly on the mean streets of Chicago, but saved a few shots for the hometown scene. Like the Tri X, I shot this roll using my Canonet.
Good stuff. One film to remember.
A Roll of Tri X
Tried out a roll of Kodak Tri X 400 on my Canonet since, gosh, this past winter (the snow-covered driveway gives it away).
For the first time, I sent a few rolls of film away to get processed and printed, with great results. It’s not cheap, but quality counts.
Film Photography Collection
It seems I’ve become the “Dave Will Take Your Old Film Camera” guy.
To be fair, I did pick up the Canonet at a yard sale. The film, too (all of it expired), was a flea market grab.
I’s been a fun way to stretch the photography hobby into new areas. Yes, it’s expensive, and yes, there’s a learning curve. But what else do you do with a hobby but spend money and pick up new skills?
Missing from this photo: a Yashica Mat 124 TLR camera a friend from high school gave me. My first foray into medium format.
Stay tuned.
A New Adventure
More film photography is in my future. I nabbed a box full of expired film at a flea market. That, plus a few film cameras, puts me in good shape to shoot.
Taking the Red Line
Taking The Red Line – Chicago, Illinois
Agfa Vista Plus 200 with a Canonet QL17.
Squares and Rectangles
Squares and Rectangles – An abandoned plant in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
35mm film with a Canonet QL17.
The Canonet QL17 G-III
I always love how the Phoblographer takes glamor shots of their cameras, usually with a rugged wooden table or canvas camera bag as the backdrop. So this weekend I took a leather jacket and tried to do the same with a bunch of my cameras, including this little Canon rangefinder.
More to come!