Category: Rangefinder

Exaggerating Angles

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The Michael Lee-Chin Crystal expansion of the Royal Ontario Museum was always controversial: a lot of people absolutely hated the look of this addition to a more traditional structure. From a photographic point of view though it offers a lot of possibilities. In this image (from the Open Streets event last weekend) I used my Voigtlander 15mm/4.5 SuperWide Heliar lens. This lens is among the wider in the 35mm format, and I like what it does with the already dramatic angles of this structure.

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Canon P Rangefinder, Voigtlander 15mm/4.5 SuperWide-Heliar
JCH StreetPan 400 film, developed in Legacy Pro EcoPro developer

Framed

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I have always liked images with inner framing, and this view near Roy Thomson Hall caught my eye recently.

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Olympus XA 35mm rangefinder camera
Bergger BRF 400+ film developed in Ilfosol 3

Garden Enclave

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These two images are from last weekend GAS meet-up / Photowalk in Hamilton ON. As the group strolled around, we came upon this little enclave downtown. A lovely surprise location! In the first image walk leader Alex is taking a peek. The second image is a view inside the garden.

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Kodak Medalist, 100mm/3.5 Ektar lens
Ilford HP5+ film respooled for 620, developed in Ilfosol 3

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Voigtlander Bessa R 35mm rangefinder,
15mm/4.5 Superwide Heliar lens
Polypan F film @ E.I. 50 developed in Ilfosol 3

Pre-Season

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Not far from our family home is a lawn bowling club that Janice and I often pass by during evening walks. When open it is full of bowlers, but right now it is quiet in the pre-season, with only the long evening shadows.

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Voigtlander Bessa R 35mm rangefinder, 
15mm SuperWide Heliar lens
Polypan F film @ EI 50, developed in Ilfosol 3

Texture and Sharpness

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This image is from a visit to High Park in the fall of 2015. The combination of the Rollei RPX 25 film, Rodinal developer and the Zeiss Sonnar 50mm/1.5 lens mounted on my Contax IIIa made for very good sharpness, I love these slow speed films! (I left the sprockets etc. in the scan because I liked the way it looks 🙂 ).

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Formalism is Where You Find It

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Last Saturday in Milton I was struck by the geometric patterns of the pipes etc. on this wall, with the bright sunlight and contrasty film throwing them into stark relief.

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Canon P Rangefinder, 35mm/2.5 Voigtlander Skopar lens
Adox CMS 20 II film, developed on Rollei RLC Developer

The Track

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This past Saturday I met up with my fellow hosts of the Classic Camera Revival podcast to record future episodes and go for a photo walk. We met up in Milton, which has this great park downtown, including a no longer used, but preserved stretch of rail.

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Canon P rangefinder, 35mm/2.5 Voigtlander Skopar lens
TMax 400 film developed in Ilfosol. 
Toning and vignette in post

No Direction Home

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The first of a couple more images from my Canon P rangefinder with my Voigtlander 35mm/2.5 Color Skopar lens. While I was in the Lower Don Valley about 10 days ago a homeless person was walking in the same direction. Shooting him from the back felt like the better thing to do.

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Shot on Rollei Retro 80S film, developed in Rodinal 1+50 for 14 minutes @ 20 C