News & Convenience, Norwich
Fujifilm X-T2, Fujinon XF 18-135mm f3.5~5.6 R LM OIS WR at 32mm, 1/80s, f8, ISO 200
Not that convenient anymore… Spotted during a wander around Norwich a few days ago.
Category: Urban
Single frame… Chimneys, Long Eaton
Chimneys, Long Eaton, April 2019
Olympus OM-20, Zuiko Auto-S 50mm f/1.8, 1/250s, f11 – Foma Retropan 320
Developed in Ilford DDX at 1:4, 10 mins at 20°c.
It’s taken me over a year to finish this roll of Foma Retropan 320 and although the results are better than the roll I shot in Norfolk last year (in the then on loan Fujica GW 690) I still don’t think I’ll be rushing to buy any more…
This roll only had one damaged frame but the lack of contrast and ‘fluffy’ grain still aren’t to my taste. If anyone has any tips for exposing and/or developing this film to get the best out of it then please let me know…
Wordless Wednesday… Barred window, Long Eaton
Barred window, Long Eaton
Olympus OM-20, Zuiko Auto-S 50mm f/1.8, 1/125s, f5.6 – Foma Retropan 320
Developed in Ilford DDX at 1:4, 10 mins at 20°c.
Single frame… Captain America at No.5 Sydney Street
5 Sydney Street
Nikon F75, AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D, 1/250s, f8, Kodak Ektachrome E100
Wishing my friends and readers ‘across the pond’ a super and safe July 4th! 🇺🇸
The above sign adorns Dave’s Comics in Brighton, East Sussex, a business occupying two shops on Sydney Street… but if memory serves this sign is actually above the one at No.3!
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Wordless Wednesday… Department of History, University of Sheffield
Department of History, University of Sheffield
Nikon FE2, Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 AI-S – 1/125s, f8, – Kodak Portra 400 rated at ISO 200
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Single frame… Hendo’s!
‘Hendo’s!’
Nikon FE2, Nikkor 24mm f/2.8 AI-S – 1/250s, f8, – Kodak Portra 400 rated at ISO 200
A trio of brass bottles, modelled on the famous Henderson’s Relish (Hendo’s) bottle, adorning a seating area in Leavygreave Road, Sheffield, a few yards away from the former Henderson’s Relish factory. The seating areas and ‘planter tables’ were designed by local artist David Appleyard.
A happy reminder of a wander around my favourite city on an utterly glorious day in June 2019.
If there is a finer condiment to splash on a meal I’ve yet to taste it!
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Slide Film Sunday… Tea’s Maid!
Tea’s Maid!
Nikon F75, AF Nikkor 50mm f/1.8D, 1/45s, f8, Kodak Ektachrome E100
Another image shot on Kodak Ektachrome E100 last summer…
I’ve photographed this cheeky sign that advertises That Little Tea Shop in the Lanes in Brighton a few times but as yet I’ve not sampled said shop’s menu… I really must pop in for tea and cake at some point!
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Throwback Thursday… Fellows Morton & Clayton Ltd/The Canalhouse
Fellows Morton & Clayton Ltd
Nikon D300, AF-S DX NIKKOR 16-85mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR at 42mm, 1/640s, f5.6, ISO 200
What was I photographing on this day in previous years?
10 years ago it was The Canalhouse, a pub occupying the lower floors of the former canal museum in Nottingham. I believe it’s the only canalside pub in Britain where the canal itself (The Beeston Canal) actually enters the building!
Fellows Morton & Clayton Ltd was, for much of the early 20th century, the largest and best-known canal transportation company in England. They went into liquidation in 1948 but the name lives on in a smaller pub next door to The Canalhouse.
Single frame… Expired Film Day 2020
Caribbean Spice
Canon EOS 600, EF 50mm f/1.8 II, 1/125s, f4 – O.O.D. Kodacolor 200
Last weekend I managed to shoot a roll of Kodacolor 200 (that went out of date in September 2001!) for Expired Film Day 2020. Using the rule of thumb ‘overexpose one stop for every decade the film is out of date I rated it at EI 50 and the results aren’t bad!
This security shutter caught my eye, it belongs to Caribbean Spice, a restaurant and takeaway on London Road in Sheffield… and I really must try the food there!
Scan by AgLab with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Single frame… ‘Eyecatching’
‘Eyecatching’
Yashica FX-D Quartz, Yashica ML 35mm f/2.8 – Agfa Vista Plus 200
Another sheet of forgotten negatives turned up this week, funnily enough at the same time I decided to give the camera they were shot on another outing.
The Yashica FX-D Quartz is a close relative of the Contax 139 and shares its lens mount, enabling the use of Contax’s superb Carl Zeiss optics but this entire roll of film was shot with the excellent Yashica ML 35mm f/2.8 lens.
This piece of street art (and the building it adorned) are no more, another disused factory knocked down… ‘Eyecatching’ was collaboration between Sheffield artists Rocket 01 and Faunagraphic and other examples of their work are still visible around the city.
Epson 4870 Photo scan with minimal cropping and tweaking in Lightroom Classic CC.
Freelance Wastrel 