Some behind the scenes shots while series 8 of Lewis was being filmed on Broad Street, Oxford last month. It wasn’t easy for the crew to film on a main street during lunch time and they certainly drew a crowd of curious onlookers. I particularly liked how they had transformed the empty Blackwell’s music shop on the corner of Turl Street into a coffee shop called Fix. The shot in the bottom left is of the props guy’s moving in some of the furniture.
[Tech info:] Zenit TTL, 58/2 Helios lens, loaded with Agfa Vista 200 (Poundland) film, processed and scanned by ASDA in Swindon. (Thanks Simon).
Hi Nasir, good work with the Zenit and Vista Poundland film
My very first SLR weas a Zenit E with M42 mount and a Helios lens and that lens was a total terror for lens flare if I got a bit too much sky in the picture. It used to drive me spare but I couldnt afford a Pentax multi coated lens to replace it with :-/ But it was very sharp lens if you kept the sky out of the shot
I remember the absolute joy of seeing the results of my very first ever roll of colour slide film in it and that was Kodachrome 25. Unbelievable sharpness and textures :-)I enjoy
your site immensely
Thanks, Dave. It’s a tank of a camera, built to last.