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Sunday, April 25th, 2021
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Tags: 2021, 35mm, black&white, endeavour, exeter, film, filming, hc110, leica, m6, oxford, people, s8e2, Tri-X, voigtlander
Wednesday, April 21st, 2021
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Tags: 2021, 400H, 6x6, c41, endeavour, film, filming, fuji, mamiya 6, oxford, people, s8e2
Thursday, April 15th, 2021
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Tags: 35mm, black&white, d96, double x, endeavour, film, filming, leica, m6, merton street, oxford, pakon, people, s8e1, voigtlander
Monday, April 12th, 2021
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Tags: 2020, 400H, 6x6, bagley wood, c41, film, noritsu, pentacon six, sunrise
Thursday, January 14th, 2021
During December 2020 the UK saw a lot of rainfall and some parts of the country were flooded. I don’t remember Oxford receiving enough rain to cause flooding but as the massive volume of water from other parts comes rushing through Oxford the rivers swell which in turn causes some areas to flood, especially a local meadow. I made the most of the flooding and did some photography with a large format camera I’ve been wanting to try out for a while. It’s custom made with a 75mm Schneider lens which is fitted to a helicoid for focussing and the back rotates – something I found out by accident which was a nice bonus. There is no branding on it but it’s extremely well designed and made.
I wanted to fill the frame with sky and the reflection in the water so I had to stand in the water because a 75mm on 5×4 film gives an extremely wide angle of view. The Benbo Mk 2 tripod is perfect for this because the legs extend upwards from inside the bottom part of the legs and is designed to stand in water. What a didn’t realise was how easily one of the feet would end up coming off in the mud because it had a split in it, something I only noticed once I got back home. Fortunately Paterson in the UK still sell spares and supply them in a pack of 3. I’ve included some behind the scenes pictures below.
[Tech info:] Custom red dot 5×4 camera, 75mm Schneider lens, FP4 film (expired), developed in Kodak HC110 1+31 (-1 minute to prevent the highlights blowing out).
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Tags: 5x4, 75mm, black&white, film, flood, fp4, hc110, ilford, meadow, oxford
Monday, January 4th, 2021
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Tags: 645, black&white, film, fog, HP5, ilford, ilfosol 3, jobo, night, oxford, pentax
Sunday, January 3rd, 2021
On 29th December 2020 there was an unusually bright moon so I ventured out to do some moonlighting. The moon was possibly a day away from being full and the sky was completely clear. Here’s a shot of a flooded meadow I had been photographing at the end of December (more of those pictures to come). The exposure time for this was 2 minutes. I bracketed exposures and made a 3 minute exposure which has a brighter sky but the reflection in the water is not as clear.
[Tech info]: Mamiya Universal, 50/6.3 lens, Fuji Across 100, 6×9 back, developed in Ilford Ilfosol 3, 1+9 for 6m 30s in a Jobo.
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Tags: 6x9, film, fuji acros, ilfosol 3, mamiya universal, meadow, moonlight, night, oxford
Thursday, November 12th, 2020
I’ve borrowed a Contax T2 point and shoot camera from a kind friend of mine and have been taking it with me on a few walks recently to see if it lives up to its reputation. So far I can’t say it has. Below are some examples from a recent walk and you can see in three of them only the centre of the frame is in focus and the outer edge of the frame looks so distorted I wonder if there’s an alignment problem with the lens. Surely it can’t be down to a shallow depth of field. The strange thing is in the shot of the moss covered branch (second image) the blurry edges aren’t there so maybe it’s more to do with focussing at infinity? Maybe this is normal for this camera but no one has mentioned it in any reviews? Not sure.
[Tech info:] Contax T2, Eastman Double X film, developed in FPP D96 for 7mins 30secs. Pakon scans.
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Tags: 2020, 35mm, bagley wood, black&white, d96, double x, film, kodak, pakon
Sunday, November 8th, 2020
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Tags: 2020, 35mm, 40mm, black&white, d96, double x, film, leica, m2, nokton, oxford, pakon, people, photowalk, voigtlander
Wednesday, November 4th, 2020
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Tags: 10x8, 2020, b&w, film, hc110, intrepid, oxford, plaubel, x-ray
Wednesday, June 17th, 2020
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Tags: 35mm, c41, endeavour, film, filming, fuji, leica, m6, merton, oxford, people, s7e3, superia 200, voigtlander
Monday, June 15th, 2020
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Tags: 35mm, black&white, endeavour, film, filming, HP5, iso1600, leica, m6, oxford, pakon, people, s7e1, summer, voigtlander, xtol