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New lens for my first camera
I started this blog to share my journey with my Pentax 645N medium format film camera. But the journey to the Pentax was through nearly twenty or so years with various digital SLR Canons (350D, 50D and the 7D) preceded by my first camera, a Canon EOS 300… I’ve been using it on and off…
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La Trinité-sur-mer
This is one of our favourite places. We occasionally holiday in this part of France (see previous post of the Alignments near Carnac). We always drop in to La Trinité for a coffee and a stroll along the harbour. I never really make enough time to spend time with my Pentax 645N as it’s usually…
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Time to try Black and White film?
This is one of several thousand stones (menhirs) in the alignments near Carnac in France. It was a beautiful evening and the Kodak Gold really adds to the warmth of the shot. I think this might be one for the garden room wall. There’s a lot of structure and contrast in this shot and I…
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French Market, Saumur
I think I like street photography. The Pentax 645N is an unwieldy thing for such photography but these two shots seem to have captured a brief moment in time and the subjects are seemingly unaware of my focus on them. The light is good and the film has given the shots a timeless quality that…
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It’s been a while…
You have to make room in your finances for film photography. Sadly, things have been a bit tight recently, for obvious reasons, which is why I haven’t posted for a while. Despite the impending doom of a likely increased mortgage, petrol has dropped and the energy companies keep giving me money back so I bit…
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Patience rewarded
They are here. My first set of scanned negatives from Exposure Film Lab delivered by WeTransfer.com. True to form, film kept my patience in check, again. I think the new year has been a busy time for Exposure and I had to chase my scans up but to be fair they were working close to…
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Have a little patience…
I think it was my Granny who told me once that “Patience is a virtue..” and Gary Barlow and Take That were kind enough to remind us to “have a little Patience”, though they were all about waiting for a loved one to get over their last love. Who pesters a potential suitor to get…
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Film on Medium Format here we come!
Here I go. Wish me luck. A journey into the unknown of (i) medium format film photography and (ii) blogging. The turn of a new decade and my 40th birthday last month got me thinking about my photography. (Perhaps this is a midlife crisis…?) I found my old Canon EOS 300 35mm camera during our…
dan on film 