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I'm a 25 year old student from Sweden that is starting to get really into shooting film besides my digital cameras. I'm developing and scanning B&W at home now and will soon be part of a workshop to get access to a darkroom to make copies from my negatives.
I really started with a Pentax K-7 co-bought with my brother but as I (somehow) became the official photographer for the local hockey club me and my brother ended up selling the K-7 and bought a K-5 each. So all in all I "learned" the basics o photography at the hockey rink and soon got even more interesting sports assignments. Now I sadly don't shoot sports at the moment due to clashes with the student life.
As every Pentax photographer I saw me collecting old lenses quickly due to the compatibility ad soon also bodies. The first one I bought was an Edixa-mat with M42 that sadly broke (probably a spring that snapped) before I got to shoot with it. After that I got a Pentax Spotmatic SPII that's working great. Since then I've collected a bunch of Pentax gear.
After Pentax came the Voigtländer bug. I got two Prominent bodies with a bunch of lenses but one Prominent shutter is broken and the other one a tad sluggish. Recently I've been shooting with an Ultramatic CS, it's wonderful! Why don't they make that kind of superb finish and detailing anymore on the cameras? Even new Leica's looks cheap (maybe not "cheap") beside my shiny Ultramatic CS.
After holding a guys Zenza Bronica I also wanted a medium format camera and I've always wanted one of those cool looking folders since being a kid. I saw a Bessa from 1929 online with no bids and went for it. It really is a guessing game of a camera with the zone focusing and brutal focus scale and incredibly limited with B T 1/25-1/100 for a shutter and a Voigtar F7.7.
Before even finishing a roll with that camera I stumbled on a Bergheil 6.5x9 with a Heliar 12cm F4.5. To my surprise it was a green one when I got it and loads of accessories! If I've understood it correctly the 12cm F4.5 Heliar is a really good lens? Messed up the first roll by not realizing that you only should shoot every other number for 6x9 when using the RADA Rollfilm back, blaming it on the fact that so many persons stopped for a chat when I was testing it out in Stockholm. I'm not use to so many steps to get the shots but it will help me slow down.
Some pics of some of the stuff:
I'm a 25 year old student from Sweden that is starting to get really into shooting film besides my digital cameras. I'm developing and scanning B&W at home now and will soon be part of a workshop to get access to a darkroom to make copies from my negatives.
I really started with a Pentax K-7 co-bought with my brother but as I (somehow) became the official photographer for the local hockey club me and my brother ended up selling the K-7 and bought a K-5 each. So all in all I "learned" the basics o photography at the hockey rink and soon got even more interesting sports assignments. Now I sadly don't shoot sports at the moment due to clashes with the student life.
As every Pentax photographer I saw me collecting old lenses quickly due to the compatibility ad soon also bodies. The first one I bought was an Edixa-mat with M42 that sadly broke (probably a spring that snapped) before I got to shoot with it. After that I got a Pentax Spotmatic SPII that's working great. Since then I've collected a bunch of Pentax gear.
After Pentax came the Voigtländer bug. I got two Prominent bodies with a bunch of lenses but one Prominent shutter is broken and the other one a tad sluggish. Recently I've been shooting with an Ultramatic CS, it's wonderful! Why don't they make that kind of superb finish and detailing anymore on the cameras? Even new Leica's looks cheap (maybe not "cheap") beside my shiny Ultramatic CS.
After holding a guys Zenza Bronica I also wanted a medium format camera and I've always wanted one of those cool looking folders since being a kid. I saw a Bessa from 1929 online with no bids and went for it. It really is a guessing game of a camera with the zone focusing and brutal focus scale and incredibly limited with B T 1/25-1/100 for a shutter and a Voigtar F7.7.
Before even finishing a roll with that camera I stumbled on a Bergheil 6.5x9 with a Heliar 12cm F4.5. To my surprise it was a green one when I got it and loads of accessories! If I've understood it correctly the 12cm F4.5 Heliar is a really good lens? Messed up the first roll by not realizing that you only should shoot every other number for 6x9 when using the RADA Rollfilm back, blaming it on the fact that so many persons stopped for a chat when I was testing it out in Stockholm. I'm not use to so many steps to get the shots but it will help me slow down.
Some pics of some of the stuff: