Wallace Koopmans Artlog

Just another odd find.  I’m not sure what this means and to whom.

When you have film cameras you need film.  Having film on hand makes it a lot easier to overcome the barrier that using film costs more than digital.  Very fortuitous timing occurred with this film.  I walked up to the counter just as the photo manager was cleaning out a drawer and placed these on the counter.  My first words where I will take a box of that film.  I think he though I meant one roll.  Once we cleared that up and he scanned in the price I modified my request to OK I will take it all.  Well twenty rolls was all that they had but at 49 cents a roll that isn’t bad at all.  So 20 rolls times 24 exposures is 480 that should keep me going for awhile.  All told when developing is included (I scan my own film) it comes to about 15 cents per exposure.  For me it’s well worth that cost to be able to use some of my old cameras.

I think I love the deep greens of spring more than anything else, well that and the yellows.

I don’t know what is so appealing about paint flaking off a sign but it does embody the passage of time.  OK two plays on words in one sentence that must be a record for me.

Sometimes something just grabs your eye as you are walking by.  So as I was getting a coffee the other day and was walking back to my vehical I noticed how the space between the trees mimicked the shape of the arrow on the ground.  Fortunately no one ran me over as I crouched down to get this shot.  The great thing about cameras is the ability to share your vision of the world with others.  It would be easy to assume that we all see things the same but pictures can be as much about the viewer as the creator.

It was a beautiful day today and the flowers are starting to bloom.  I wanted to continue testing my new macro lens so I though that it would be interesting to try it with a film body.   I used Kodak color 200 film and the PZ1-p.  I then scanned the negatives with the Epson V700 at 3200 dpi.  While it was interesting to do this I certainly missed the immediate feedback that you derive from using a digital camera and trying to squint through a viewfinder at odd angles is not as easy as using live view for composition.  After all that though I am pleased with the results and can’t wait to shoot some more with this wonderful lens.

Well I thought I would be able to predict where this camera focused but apparently not.  It’s a little too random for my liking, however as far as massively out of focus pictures go I like this one.  Ohhh look at the pretty colours, aren’t they pretty.

Green is the colour of the day.

I thought it would be fun to expose a roll of film through my x-700 which I bought new as a teenager.  I shot with colour film and converted to black and white using Lightroom which is just as real as a BW created by a  digital camera.  I may post the images that I left as colour separately.

The Ql17 has a measure of cult status in the fixed lens rangefinder record.  It’s f1.7 40mm lens is fast and the ability to set both shutter and aperture manually make it a very versatile camera.  The shutter is extremely quite and it doesn’t have a pesky LCD screen on the back.  I shot these pictures during a walk around the older part of downtown Abbotsford.  I used Kodak 200 film and scanned them in after having them developed.  The BW images are converted in lightroom where I now do most of my image processing.