Taken at Brunch this past Sunday. I love mirrors and window frames!
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Dangerous Stairs
To be honest, I did not feel particularly safe on these stairs in Elora, it was a rainy day and the stone steps were slippery.
Voigtlander Bessa R2M, 35mm/f1.7 Ultron lens
Kodak TMax 400 film
Seen In Kensington Market
Voigtlander Bessa R2M, 35mm/f1.7 Ultron,
Adox CMS 20 II film
Lines and Textures
This image is from a shuttered building in Elora. My eyes were drawn to the lines and the various textures.
Hasselblad 500CM, 80mm/f2.8 Planar lens
RPX 400 film developed in Microdol-X, 1+1
Still Life
Seen on the trip back from Muskoka a few weeks ago. The dead tree and the derelict building seemed like the perfect combination.
Voigtlander Bessa R2M, 35mm/f1.7 Ultron lens
Kodak TMax 400 film
Be sure to check out the latest episode of the Classic Camera Revival Podcast; this time around we talk about taking studio cameras out into the field. Also check out my own show MPP (My Photography Podcast). This week I am talking to Canadian Photographer Avard Woolaver about his photography of Toronto in the 1980’s.
Another Fine Grain Film
In yesterday’s post I featured images created using long discontinued Kodak Technical Pan. Thankfully, there is a worthy successor still being made today: Rollei ATP 1.1. This is another slow speed film with extremely fine grain and sharpness, but also requiring special handling in development. This first roll was developed using Rollei RLC Low contrast developer, which does a great job, but is not cheap. I have more of this film coming, and I will test one roll using Rodinal, a much less expensive developer, to see if I can get comparable results.
Mamiya RZ67, 65mm Mamiya C lens
Rollei ATP 1.1 film @ E.I. 20
Developed in Rollei RLC Low contrast developer, 1+4, 6 minutes @ 20C
Lazarus Film #2
The bag that had the roll of Panatomic X also contained a roll of Kodak Technical Pan dating from the 1970’s, so of course decades past expiry. This is a slow speed film so I was reasonably hopeful that it would be usable, and I was not disappointed. Kodak Technical Pan, long discontinued, was a super sharp high resolution film requiring special development to manage contrast, and I love its look! These three images were shot in the ravine in the Beaches.
Mamiya RZ67, 65mm Mamiya C lens
Kodak Technical Pan film, developed in Rollei RLC Low contrast developer
On the Edge
This image is from the recent Photography meet-up in Elora. I loved this tree hanging on to the edge of the cliff.
Voigtlander Bessa R2M, 35mm/f1.7 Ultron lens
Kodak TMax 400 film
Wide Angle Portrait
I tend to avoid wide-angle lenses for portraits; they tend not to be very flattering. The angle and distance from the subject in this portrait (my friend, and fellow photographer and podcaster Alex Luyckx) made it work. The light of an overcast day coming through the window was amazing.
Voigtlander Bessa R2M, 35mm/f1.7 Voigtlander Ultron lens
Kodak TMax 400 film
Erosion
It make look like large rocks but this is clay that has fallen at Bluffer’s Beach in Scarborough, On.
Mamiya RZ67, 65mm C lens
Rollei SuperPan 200 film
My Third Eye 