This pair of images represents the passage of 8 months. I composed the second one from memory so it is off a bit but it still serves it’s purpose. You can see that all evidence of the foundation is gone and even the house and garage from the first image have been removed.
I have to say as far as the luck of things coming together for a an image it did for the one of the old man and the child along with the large and small tug boat.
No not that the lenses were made with radioactive isotopes, it’s just that if you think you might want to capture something critical, and when don’t you? The question is can you really rely on them? I ran a roll of cheap film through this Minolta Himatic C and found that all the images had this faded spot in the lower right. No matter how much I look at the lens from either side I can’t see what caused this. It must be a separation of some lens elements because it’s too subtle to detect, particularly at 1/60 second (There is no bulb setting). The good news for me is that the pictures I took weren’t critical and are only reference material. I have several versions of the Himatic: E,F,G and this C and as far as design goes this is the best. I really like that the lens collapses into the body and that you have two shutter speeds 1/30 and 1/250 indicated by a cloud and a sun respectively. The aperture is automatic but it does show in the viewfinder along with the focus indication in the form of four symbols of distance. So did I learn my lesson about old cameras, no not really.
Early morning walk before my meeting. Malls devoid of people and cars are somehow eerie, like something less benign than consumerism lurks inside.
While this is an instant image it is as much a product of fiction as if I had created it on a computer. Why? These items while grouped together in some representation of an idea of a gas station are really just part of someones giant still life. This scene doesn’t represent any current reality but a vague sense of the past maybe created from memories learned from photographs. Me I see a vignette that could be fromWilliam Christenberry’s South. William_Christenberry
Some shots from outside the hotel I had meetings at all last week.
Some more images from the Kodak Retina IIIC. It is a great camera which makes it all the more of a shame that the 50mm lens has damage. And look I managed to sneak in another blossom image.
When you shoot film you tend to try to make every exposure count, at least more than with digital. These images are from the same 36 exposure roll of Ektar 100 that I used for testing the camera.
Ok I’m no wine expert but I don’t think this was a very good year.
This was shot with the Kodak Retina IIIc in case you got past the wine barrel garbage can connection.
So I received my negatives back today from Lens and Shutter who also supplied me with this camera. If you read my first post about this camera I wrote how the 50mm lens had been damaged, well that had little effect on the actual images. So here are some samples and also views of the camera itself with the 35mm lens and viewfinder attached. The 50mm lens does have considerable barrel distortion which I have corrected in Lightroom where it mattered.
