“Cool” is a difficult thing to quantify, but you know it when you see it. At least, you know what you think is cool. I’m not sure why it is exactly that some cameras strike me that way, and others don’t. And chances are good that the ones I think are really cool won’t seem that way to you. Buy having said that, is there anyone out there who honestly doesn’t think the Yashica Electro is cool? Seriously — just look at it! Continue reading
French Beach Provincial Park, BC.
(Camera: Hasselblad 503cx: Lens: 80mm f/2.8 Zeiss Planar; Film: Fuji Acros100)
Sydney Opera House detail.
(Camera: Yashica-Mat TLR; Film: KodaK Ektar 100)
A good friend of mine is really into taking pictures with his iPhone. Like many people, he uses it for casual snaps, but he also tackles more ambitious photographic projects with it, including elaborate stitched panoramas and mosaics. I, on the other hand, do most all my picture taking with old film cameras. On the surface, you might not imagine we have much in common photographically, and yet, we’re really two sides of the same coin. Both of us have learned to exploit the power of limitations. Continue reading
Off Mason Street, Victoria, BC.
(Camera: Yashica T4 Zoom; Film: Ilford XP2 Super 400 chromagenic)
Chinatown, Victoria, BC
(Camera: Olympus Pen; Film: Kodak T-Max 100)
In the final analysis, is the Lomography Belair a camera worth owning ? As I emphasized in Part 3 of this review, much depends on your expectations and needs. As for me, the answer isn’t as cut and dried as I thought it would be when I started my evaluation. Continue reading
Snow at Tower Point CRD park, Metchosin, BC.
(Camera: Olympus 35ED; Film: Kodak T-Max 100)
It’s been a mild one so far here in Victoria. Only a few sub-zero (Celsius) nights and no snow as yet. But it’s only February. We’re not out of the woods (hah!) yet.
One man's dawn is another man's dusk. Guanacaste province, Costa Rica.
(Camera: Horizon 202; Film: Kodak Ektar 100)
These are interesting times, no question about it. A New World Order has emerged and continues to evolve as one technology eclipses another. Much of the analysis has been focused narrowly on the hardware, but in fact, it’s really only the “software” — the human component — that matters. A camera is just an inert hunk of plastic, metal, and glass, until someone picks it up and takes pictures with it. As always, it’s what we do with the machinery that determines its artistic utility and, ultimately, its value. Call it a vision thing. Continue reading
Shot yesterday at Gordon's Beach near Sooke, BC.
(Camera: Lomography Belair X 6-12; Lens: 90mm Belair; Film: Fuji Acros 100)
Guitar shop, Blanshard Street, Victoria, BC.
(Camera: Yashica 35MF; Film: Ilford XP2 Super 400 chromogenic)
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