After getting the 28mm wide angle lens, I now feel more influenced to do what Eamon ( 'stpiduko' in Flickr) usually do, going around town smelling of last night's lagers asking people if it okay for him to take a portrait of them.
Naturally I gave it a try, despite the lack of interesting fashion on Tuesday and using the wrong film (Fujifilm 1600), I managed to get some interesting shot and especially when I finally use the correct film (Kodak Portra 160VC) it came out even nicer with a smaller dept of field to add sharpness.
I'll keep on trying this week around London for more portrait shot.
Jul 12, 2007
Jul 7, 2007
28mm
I hasn't use my Canon EOS-1n in age, mostly because at the moment it got a 50mm lens, nice but not my choice, and also it's quite big and heavy for everyday usage (this is also why I value my film compact) so I finally found a good 28mm lens for only £140, quite a good value considered it used to cost about £220.
I love it now, the wide angle is always nice to use and on a high end SLR, the bright viewfinder made it a lots easier, especially at low lighting when it can be hard to see the subject through the viewfinder.
I'll end up using it a lots more this week, I love doing portrait with it, like the shot I took of my girlfriend and her ever-screaming Toki Doki bag.
Oh, and Kodak Portra 160VC is the sex.
I love it now, the wide angle is always nice to use and on a high end SLR, the bright viewfinder made it a lots easier, especially at low lighting when it can be hard to see the subject through the viewfinder.
I'll end up using it a lots more this week, I love doing portrait with it, like the shot I took of my girlfriend and her ever-screaming Toki Doki bag.
Oh, and Kodak Portra 160VC is the sex.
May 27, 2007
Success Of The Medium Format
After using the Lubitel for a while, I started to like the affordability of the TLR, so I decided that it's worth upgrading the Lubitel to something a bit better, well a lots better, by getting the Yashica Mat 124.
The Yashica is basically a clone of the well known Rolleiflex TLR, it's much more solidity made, conventional, easy to handle and despite being heavier and bigger, a crisper viewfinder that make focusing easier.
I should be able to use it a lots more now, I love the medium format photography more than the 35mm counterpart, I'd rather have a medium format SLR, but for now, I'll stick with the TLR for a while, take advantage of what I have.
The Yashica is basically a clone of the well known Rolleiflex TLR, it's much more solidity made, conventional, easy to handle and despite being heavier and bigger, a crisper viewfinder that make focusing easier.
I should be able to use it a lots more now, I love the medium format photography more than the 35mm counterpart, I'd rather have a medium format SLR, but for now, I'll stick with the TLR for a while, take advantage of what I have.
Apr 9, 2007
Thou shalt not read NME
The title is obviously taken from the ever-fantastic Thou Shalt Always Kill song, However as much as I like to this is not what I'm gonna talk about.
I've just recently aquired a medium format TLR called a Lubitel, it's basically those cheap basic one that's nowhere as good as those Rollei or Yashica one, but it's a start, as my belief in photography is that you don't need an excellent camera to take a great shot, a better camera just make it easier, not better. I was rather taken aback by the sheer amount of detail a single medium format negatives held, it also worth noting that many professional photographer still use medium format because they can easily scan the negative to 220 megapixels easily while a digital back can only get about 30 megapixels, despite the benefit of having instantaneous preview of the shot you've just took (and let not forget the sheer cost of getting a digital back, easily 10 grand for a good one).
I'd use the Lubitel more but because it's not as conventional as the Contax T3 or the excellent LOMO LC-A, I fear that it might be gathering dusts.
I've just recently aquired a medium format TLR called a Lubitel, it's basically those cheap basic one that's nowhere as good as those Rollei or Yashica one, but it's a start, as my belief in photography is that you don't need an excellent camera to take a great shot, a better camera just make it easier, not better. I was rather taken aback by the sheer amount of detail a single medium format negatives held, it also worth noting that many professional photographer still use medium format because they can easily scan the negative to 220 megapixels easily while a digital back can only get about 30 megapixels, despite the benefit of having instantaneous preview of the shot you've just took (and let not forget the sheer cost of getting a digital back, easily 10 grand for a good one).
I'd use the Lubitel more but because it's not as conventional as the Contax T3 or the excellent LOMO LC-A, I fear that it might be gathering dusts.
Apr 3, 2007
Rarity
As I fell in love with the expired Kodak Portra film, I rushed back to West End Camera to try and get some more before it ran out, sadly it has ran out so instead I brought two Kodak Ektachrome 160T films to see how an expired slide film when cross process (and one to process normally) appear, perhaps an interesting mix, it might look like it's cross processed but can you tell? hopefully I'll find out soon enough before West End Camera end up running out of expired Ektachrome films.
Mar 26, 2007
Expired
expired films goodness, I aquired some old Kodak Portra 100T at my local camera shop in the 'bargain' bin, mostly to see how it would turn out and i'm pleasantly surprised by how wonderfully muted the colour is, definitely going back to get the whole expired Portra soon.
Mar 23, 2007
Retro? What Is Retro?
I rather like the graffiti (or stencil? it look like it's painted really), some would says it's a retro 60's style, but sod that, enough of this retro rubbish, this one is purely a modernised 60's style, retro would implied that it's an imitation of a style/fashion or design from the recent past, so this is not a retro design, it's purely a modernisation of a 60's design.
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