5 Amazing* Kodak Ektar 100 Photos From My First Roll

Flashback to late 2008. Digital has completely obliterated 35mm sales. Kodak, Fuji, and Ilford are about to shut down their film processing lines and go under. Digital SLR owners worldwide cheer in a unified rejoice as they drink the blood from the severed heads of film photographers in the jubilee that followed once they’ve finally [...]

At least they both shoot.

Strange but true. Yesterday I was walking home from work and had my M3 ready in my right hand. Someone I passed asked me if I holding a German Luger.
Lets compare the two real quick shall we?
Leica M3 with 35mm Goggled Summaron.

German Luger
Image borrowed from http://www.luger-genesis.com/ with love, and without permission.
I gave him half credit [...]

Battle of the Century

So I have the temporary use of a nice old Leica M3. Today I vowed that when I woke up, that I was going to go out and shoot a roll with it. I also vowed that I was going to take one of my Canonet QL17s with me and compare it shot-by-shot against the [...]

Blizzard

When the snow is blowing sideways, and you can’t see more then half a block down the road, what do you do? Sit inside and drink some egg nog next to the fireplace? Nah, how about busting out the flash and doing a little people photography? Sounds good to me!

I didn’t get much from this [...]

Duluth Classic Photos

As promised, here are my results from the Duluth Classic bike race. Full set of keepers can be viewed in this set on my flickr page.

More photos by clicking here.

Grandma’s Marathon `08

Seven hours of my feet.
18 photos with the Speed Graphic.
72 Photos with the 124G.
96 Color photos with my M3.
128 B&W photos with my M3.
Longest single outing I think I’ve ever had, and the first where I got to wear an actual badge saying “Official Photographer” and I’m surprisingly not as a sore as I expected. [...]

Large format must be the slowest format.

About fifteen minutes ago I was out doing some night photography with my Speed Graphic. The main part of the scene metered at 5:30 minutes exposure after factoring in reciprocity. The darkest parts that I wanted to register where pretty dark, so I needed to use my flash to build up some density.
I opened up [...]

Look at all those bikes.

So it seems that the course for third stage of the Duluth Classic Bike Race goes right in front of where I am living. I had no clue until about 9:30 this morning when I looked out of my front window and seen a massive swarm of bikes going past.
I loaded up some [...]

Procrastination & Podcasts

I swear, sometimes I believe that nothing I ever think about, or do photographically hasn’t already been covered by Brooks Jensen in at least one of his Lenswork Podcasts. If you are a photographer who is visiting this site, I suggest spending some time with his podcasts.
Earlier this week I passed a parked car [...]

Rangefinder Thumb

What a year of rangefinder use can do to a glove.

War Protest

Last week I caught wind of an Iraq War protest being held a block away from where I work, and was conveniently starting right when I would be leaving the office. I grabbed my M3, a pocketful of hp5+, and attended the rally to do some rogue photojournalism.

The entire set can be seen on my [...]

Weekend

May 17th - 20th, 2007 by the numbers:

1008.8: Number of miles added to my car’s odometer.
100: Number of dollars spend on take home beer which isn’t available to me locally. (Westmalle, Orval, Ommegang etc. . )
4: Number of rolls of hp5+ that my Olympus Trip 35 chewed through.
6: Estimated number of photos that aren’t completely [...]

Where I’ve been.

Since I now have a few friends who have digital cameras and come on outings with me, I figure I can harvest some of their images and use them to create a journal of outings.
Since this site was still in development during the last two, I never did any formal write ups, so instead [...]

Yashica!

Remember the Yashicamat LM that I mentioned a few weeks back? Well, I went ahead and acquired a Yashicamat 124G as well, and last week I put it to some good use.
On Thursday I loaded it with some Provia 100F and stomped around the shores of Lake Superior at dusk to do some night photography. [...]