After a year of buying really nice cameras and lenses, I’ve gotten to a point where I’m feeling the weight of having so much money tied up on photography gear. Some of it has to go. This post is me thinking it through. I hate selling gear. Dealing
I’m either going to have to shoot this faster or stop drinking Diet Coke.
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Leica Leica MP | Leica Summilux-M 50mm ASPH | Portra 400 400 Scanned with Epson V750. Cinestill C-41 Negative Lab Pro v2.2.0 | Color Model: Frontier | Pre-Sat: 3 | Tone Profile: LAB – Standard | WB: Auto-Neutral | LUT: Frontier
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Sometimes it’s fun to throw a roll through the little Olympus Stylus Epic. Mostly self-portraits around the house because I was bored.
Tri-X
Now that I have my dream MP, I should probably sell the M6. If I do, this will have been the last roll I shot with it.
Out with the new MP and a roll of HP5+. I think these are all shot with the 50mm Summilux ASPH
50mm
Here are a few from the very first roll through the new Leica MP. (Sorry, I lost them)
Tri-X
Tri-X in the Hasselblad 500C/M. This was the only shot on the roll that I liked.
If I knew how to take a good picture, I’d do it all the time Robert Doisneau
I enjoy both film and digital photography, but the pendulum has been swinging toward film recently, and I’ve been having a ball. I’ve finally dialed in a film processing, scanning, and editing workflow that works and that I don’t hate. What’s more, I’ve been studying
These are all taken with the Leica M3 on HP5+ and were processed in HC-110 Dilution B. I’m pretty sure I used the Elmarit-M 90mm f2.8 for the entire roll.
A photograph is a universe of dots. The grain, the halide, the little silver things clumped in the emulsion. Once you get inside a dot, you gain access to hidden information, you slide inside the smallest event. This is what technology does. It peels back the shadows and redeems the