Teesside Wind Farm, September 2017
Olympus μ[mju:] Zoom 115 – Fuji Neopan 400CN rated at ISO 200
Scan by Peak Imaging with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom CC.
Category: Black & white
Monochrome Monday…
Parent and child parking space, August 2017
Olympus AF-1 Twin, 35mm lens – Ilford XP2 Super rated at ISO 200
Scan by Peak Imaging with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom CC.
A few (more) frames from… Paris
On the Nikon F90X Pro…
As I was scanning the negatives for my last ‘A few frames from…’ post it dawned on me that most of my honeymoon images have never been more than contact printed! One thing is for certain, it’s far easier to showcase photos in the internet age than it was 17 years ago…
So here are a few more…
Metro sign, Paris, September 2000
Nikon F90X Pro, Sigma 28~200mm f/3.8-5.6 DL Macro – Ilford Delta 400 rated at ISO 320
I love these art nouveau signs, designed by French architect Hector Guimard. The curved lamp posts are designed to resemble plant stems but to me always look alien, almost as if they’re going to suddenly bow down and bite an unsuspecting tourist!
‘Papa? c’est Nicole!’ Paris, September 2000
Nikon F90X Pro, Sigma 28~200mm f/3.8-5.6 DL Macro – Ilford Delta 400 rated at ISO 320
This scene reminded me of the characters created to advertise the Renault Clio car in the UK during the 1990s (search YouTube for the videos) and was taken during one of our many ‘beer in a pavement café’ interludes.
Sacré-Cœur Basilica, September 2000
Nikon F90X Pro, Sigma 28~200mm f/3.8-5.6 DL Macro – Ilford Delta 400 rated at ISO 320
Gustave Eiffel 1832-1923
Nikon F90X Pro, Sigma 28~200mm f/3.8-5.6 DL Macro – Ilford Delta 400 rated at ISO 320
Scanning these images is bringing back some very happy memories so expect some more in the next few days…
Monochrome Monday…
Renault 4 on a Parisian street, September 2000
Nikon F90X Pro, Sigma 28~200mm f/3.8-5.6 DL Macro – Ilford Delta 400 rated at ISO 320
A few frames from… Paris
On the Nikon F90X Pro…
As a couple of my recent posts have mentioned our wedding anniversary I thought I’d dig out some of the shots I took 17 years ago while on honeymoon in Paris.
I took two cameras with me, a Nikon F90X Pro fitted with a borrowed Sigma 28~200mm f/3.8-5.6 DL Macro zoom lens, and a Yashica T4, most of the black & white films were shot on the Nikon.
Flower Power Peugeot, Paris, September 2000
Nikon F90X Pro, Sigma 28~200mm f/3.8-5.6 DL Macro – Ilford Delta 400 rated at ISO 320
I have to admit that it took me a couple of days to ‘get’ Paris… I’m not normally a city person and at first I really didn’t like the noise, or the number of people but the more we wandered around, the more photos I took, the more I fell in love with ‘La Ville Lumière’ (The City of Light).
Cimetière de Montmartre, September 2000
Nikon F90X Pro, Sigma 28~200mm f/3.8-5.6 DL Macro – Ilford Delta 400 rated at ISO 320
Lunch in Montmartre Cemetery consisted of nothing more than bread, cheese and red wine… red wine that we ended up drinking straight from the bottle as we’d forgotten to bring anything to drink out of!
La tour Eiffel, September 2000
Nikon F90X Pro, Sigma 28~200mm f/3.8-5.6 DL Macro – Ilford Delta 400 rated at ISO 320
The films were developed at home (something I really need to start doing again) but have no recollection of the chemistry used, I probably picked whatever was the cheapest available at the time… The Sigma 28~200mm lens was chosen for convenience rather than quality and as a result I steered clear of ‘super zooms’ until last year when I bought the Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR lens to go with my Fujifilm X-T1.
I wish I’d never parted with the Nikon F90X though…
Monochrome Monday…
Lettres, Alligny-Cosne, France, August 2017
Pentax MZ-M, SMC Pentax-M 50mm f/2, 1/90s, f8 – JCH Street Pan 400 rated at ISO 320
Scan by Peak Imaging with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom CC.
Another image from my second roll of Japan Camera Hunter Street Pan film.
Monochrome Monday… JCH Street Pan 400
Route de Bouhy, Alligny-Cosne, France, August 2017
Pentax MZ-M, SMC Pentax-M 50mm f/2, 1/180s, f8 – JCH Street Pan 400 rated at ISO 320
Scans by Peak Imaging with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom CC.
An image from my second roll of Japan Camera Hunter Street Pan film (the first was shot in what turned out to be a faulty Olympus μ[mju:] II Zoom 80).
So far I definitely prefer this film to the Fuji Neopan 400CN that I have been using recently. The grain isn’t obtrusive and the images are nice and ‘contrasty’ which surprises me given the very flat light the afternoon I wandered around Alligny-Cosne, snapping away while waiting for the boulangerie to open at 4pm…
I’ve got one more roll in stock, I think I’ll shoot it this weekend.
A few frames from… the Nikon F3HP
High Tide, Sheringham, October 2016
Nikon F3HP, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 – 1/500s, f11, +2EV – Fuji Neopan 400CN
Union Jack, Sheringham, October 2016
Nikon F3HP, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 – 1/500s, f11, +2EV – Fuji Neopan 400CN
Wells-next-the-Sea, October 2016
Nikon F3HP, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 – 1/500s, f8, +2EV – Fuji Neopan 400CN
Scans by Ag Photo Lab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom CC.
I’m not over keen on Fuji’s C41 process black & white film… I can’t quite put my finger on why though, other than it seems very ‘grainy’ for an ISO 400 film. Once my existing stock is used up I’m going to try shooting some Ilford Delta 400 and Kodak T-MAX 400 and see how I get on with those…
Monochrome Monday…
Street art, Sheffield, March 2017 – Olympus Trip 35, Ilford Pan F plus
Another image from Expired Film Day 2017.
A few frames from…
The Olympus OM-1N…
Unity Mill
Olympus OM-1N, Zuiko Auto-zoom 35~70mm f/4 – 1/125s, f8½ – Fuji Neopan 400CN rated at ISO 200
‘I Believe In Sherlock’
Olympus OM-1N, Zuiko Auto-zoom 35~70mm f/4 – 1/125s, f16 – Fuji Neopan 400CN rated at ISO 200
E.S.C.Co.
Olympus OM-1N, Zuiko Auto-T 135mm f/3.5 – 1/250s, f8 – Fuji Neopan 400CN rated at ISO 200
Scans by Ag Photo Lab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom CC.
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