Tag: 35mm
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Back in black…
… and red. I finally got back into the darkroom this week. I spent two evenings cleaning, organizing, and developing a couple rolls of FP4. Last night I finally got to printing. I’m very happy with the results.
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Week 85 – Olympus Stylus Infinity
The Stylus Infinity is a pocket 35mm camera from the late 1990’s. It features auto focus, auto flash, power winding, and a nice 35mm f3.5 lens. It has a cult following among film photographers. I’m not so sure I am a fan, though. I’ve been carrying it intermittently for a while, but I just haven’t […]
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Olympus Auto-Eye – Week 82 results
Beth and I took the Auto-Eye to Cape Ann on a photowalk with the Greater Boston Film Photographers meet up group. We shot HP5 and color, but the color is still at the lab. The Auto-Eye is the only rangefinder I’ve ever used which also has zone focus. Brackets on the focusing scale and notches […]
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Week 82 – Olympus Auto Eye
Introduced in 1960, the Olympus Auto Eye is a fixed – lens rangefinder with shutter priority auto exposure. It features a 45 mm f2.8 lens. Shutter speed is selected on the lens barrel, and metered aperture is shown on a rotating dial inside the viewfinder. Mine was a last minute steal on a ShopGoodwill.com auction. […]
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Pentax K1000 – Week 79 results (finally!)
The K1000 is a good camera, but I’ve failed to bond with it. Everything is manual and straightforward, and I can see why it has a reputation as a student camera. I just didn’t find it interesting to use. As mentioned back in August, I carried the K1000 on vacation. I’ve finally sent the film […]
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Week 81 – SnapSights and #WTCD2014
The Internet has decreed the third Saturday in October to be World Toy Camera Day (#WTCD2014.) I have had this one in process for a few months, so this week seemed like a good time to finish the roll. At first glance the SnapSights is not very interesting. It’s a plain blue rectangle with one […]
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Week 79 – Pentax K1000 and slowing down
Introduced in 1978, the Pentax K1000 is a manual focus, manual exposure SLR. It has through the lens metering with a match needle. In the course of its 20 year production run the K1000 earned a reputation as a photography student’s camera. I have two examples. One came from a yard sale for $10; the […]
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Vitoret L – week 78 results
I like the Vitoret L. It’s reasonably sized without being huge. The shutter release on the front feels a bit odd, but it fires smoothly and quietly. I would get used to it with more use. The Selenium meter seems to work well. As with all general area meters, you must be aware of odd […]
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Week 78 – Voigtlander Vitoret L
Manufactured circa 1964, the Voigtlander Vitoret L is a viewfinder camera for 35mm. It features a 50mm f2.8 Color Lanthar lens with a Prontor 1/300 shutter. A coupled Selenium meter reads on the top plate of the camera; adjusting shutter speed or aperture moves another needle to match it. Focus is via distance markings on […]
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Canonet QL17 GIII – week 77 results
As I’ve journeyed through my camera collection, some stand out as icons of their class. For rangefinders, it’s my M3 and M6. In SLR, the Nikon FM2 & FG, Minolta SRT200 & XG9, and strangely my Chinon CM7. Box cameras? Brownie Hawkeye. TLRs would be a Yashica, probably the D. Polaroid? Spectra and 250. In […]
Notes from Mosquito Hill 