Of course, my mom has her eyes closed . . . M6TTL, CV 35 1.4 SC, TMY (New TMax 400), TMax Dev On the 4th of July, my cousin Brian got married on a veranda over looking Lake Michigan. The M6TTL, CV 35 1.4 SC and a couple of rolls of the new TMax 400 [...]
28 taps, a camera and a pretty girlfriend. Is there more to life? In other news, after two weeks and half a dozen rolls of false starts, curses and sitting down on the side walk to load the damn thing, today I managed to load my Leica on the very first try. w00t!
I’ve been playing with Rodinal again lately. This TriX @ 200 in Rodinal 1+150 for something like 30 minutes. I’ve also tried it rated TriX @ 400 in Rodinal 1+50 for whatever time the box said. I can handle the grain, but shadow detail doesn’t seem great. Contrast seems really high in general. Somewhere on [...]
See all those scratches? That’s the life of a film photographer. Rumors of a Nikon Digital RF resurfaced this week. The source seems to be an Aussie CV dealer. Details are sketchy – M mount, 6-7 MP, shipping in kit form with a redesigned pancake 45MM 2.8 – but the available details are more interesting [...]
The Three Year Anniversary Review Raxeh is Hexar spelled backwards! I bought my first Hexar RF in March, 2005. I’d just sold back to KEH the Canon 10D I’d bought a few months earlier. I’d also sold them both my Nikon FM2s and a number of lenses for a ridiculous pittance. I’d decided that what [...]