A Return To Film

Fri, 10 Feb 2017 00:00:00 +0000

A long time ago, I started creating photographs using my old trusty, dented, Zenit 11. The light meter was a selenium affair with a long narrow window above the 50mm lens and wasn’t part of the mechanical picture taking process. It powered a needle that moved along another narrow window on the top of the camera and you had to move a small circle on the end of another needle until it intersected the meter needle. You could then read off the various f-stop/shutter speed combinations. In a blizzard, on top of a mountain, in the freezing cold. However, as it had no batteries it was immune to the conditions. The perfect mountaineer’s companion. But eventually it started leaking light and the meter stopped working and I moved on to a Minolta XG-M. Which had batteries and a built-in light meter.

The Digital Zone System book review

Sat, 27 Aug 2016 00:00:00 +0000

I’ve been having a bit of an ‘analog’ renaissance lately, wandering around with my old Minolta, taking her back to the mountains she loved to explore with me, introducing her to new views and letting her work her alchemical magic once more. Back home, she’ll watch as I develop the B&W film and as I hang up the negatives to dry I can hear her calling ‘show me, show me!’, or so I fancy. Ah the romance of film photography.

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A Return To Film

The Digital Zone System book review