Analog film photography and cameras

nefarious - like your style, nice flickr stream :)

I've got a Hasselblad on loan at the moment - from the first roll.

boatkeepers cottage by windy_, on Flickr

old chair by windy_, on Flickr

Like it Windy! First shot looks almost IR, but I guess that's just the light on the grass.

You did well to retain some foreground detail in the second. How did you meter exposure?

I used my OM10, pointed at different areas and chose an exposure somewhere in the middle with a slight bias towards over exposure.

googled Ansel Adams - The Camera and the whole book seems to be online

The Camera, Ansel Adams

It would appear I can just about use a camera, yes.
Displays a look of uncertainty regarding possible sarcasm

None intended.

I've been nothing short of impressed by the photos you've posted here.

None intended.

I've been nothing short of impressed by the photos you've posted here.

Ha, :D cheers!

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I didn't think there was such a thing as a good price where Leica was concerened.
At least not from a buyer's point of view!

Some crops of old slides I was flicking through and ignored first time around.

nefarious, i get the impression from your pictures that you like the great out doors, some really inspirational landscapes.

He's some recent pictures i've taken:

(more on the flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelrolph/)

what's the deal with the carrier bags?

who knows, its art init

Its a sign of the end of the world. Its in Revelations.

nefarious, i get the impression from your pictures that you like the great out doors, some really inspirational landscapes.

Rad shot and some really great stuff on your flickr too!

I am a climber mountain type indeed.

Next big trip should yield some good photo opportunities - I'm off to have a bash at El Capitan in Yosemite, albeit not until September.

PYSCHED :D

epic - was there a couple of years ago (hiking rather than climbing tho) - absolutely epic.

You going to be doing the whole sleeping in a hammock on the rockface thing I guess :0 ?

epic - was there a couple of years ago (hiking rather than climbing tho) - absolutely epic.

You going to be doing the whole sleeping in a hammock on the rockface thing I guess :0 ?

Hope to get some proper multi day routes in, yeah. But the main thing is really just to get out there and get loads of climbing and living like a dirtbag experience!

+1

On a more philosophical view point roland bathes - 'camera lucida' and susan sontag's 'on photography' as fantastic.

Never got on with Barthes. But really enjoyed On Photography - wish she'd done a proper revisit to it before she died, I was left wanting to know what she thought about how things had turned out since the seventies.

looks like Jeff Bridges knows how to use a camera: http://jeffbridges.com/true_grit_book/

portra 160 nc/vc is going the same way as 400: merger imminent
hope the new one's good, I really like the nc version...
http://www.bjp-online.com/british-journal-of-photography/news/2027581/kodak-relaunches-portra-160-film

looks like Jeff Bridges knows how to use a camera: http://jeffbridges.com/true_grit_book/

I wonder what he's shooting on? they're very wide and distortion free, maybe one of those panoramic jobbies

ah he's using a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widelux

how was this done?

The Widelux lens pans round in a motorised arc. I imagine he had it on a tripod with the rotation free, and swivelled the camera sharply midway through exposure. My money says he tried this more than once to acheive the shot he was after.

Just got back my first set of slides and I really like the results. I bought sensia 200, as it was cheap and I only wanted to try it out.
I'm kicking myself because I didn't take a tripod with me and loads of pics were spoiled as I had to use such a large aperture that DOF was an issue. I thought that most of my shots would be in snow and not in sheltered forest so I left it at home.
It's a shame it is so expensive to develop.

gives up photography

Those are fucking SICK.