I belong to a lot of vintage photography groups on Facebook covering cameras, lenses, vintage lenses used on modern cameras etc and one often hears the phrase “vintage feel” when describing a picture that harkens back to the atmosphere of film images taken many years ago. This particular shot was taken this autumn using an old Minolta film camera, a frankly abysmal 35-80mm Minolta zoom lens, and a roll of very expired Agfa colour film (expired 2013). Most of the shots on this roll were very washed out, I’m assuming the expired film was the culprit for that (it couldn’t have been the photographer could it???). But there was just something about this shot that brought to mind that “vintage feel”.
See the first comment box for a picture of the camera setup.
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Shot back at the end of October in a local woodland.
Medium format film photography
Rolleiflex 3.5F TLR
Schneider Kreuznach Xenotar 75mm f3.5
Ektar 100
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Taken later the same day as my previous image but with B&W film loaded into the old Rolleiflex. I was excited to get the scans from this roll of film back because I can remember looking through the viewfinder at this scene and thinking how perfect the late afternoon light was. It took a while but finally received the scans this evening.
Medium format film photography
Rolleiflex 3.5F TLR
Schneider Kreuznach Xenotar 75mm f3.5
Ilford PanF Plus 50
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I don't know the name of this building which is situated in the Nine Elms/Vauxhall area of London despite doing a bit of Google Maps research. It may be a student housing facility but I'm not entirely sure.
There are days when I'm out with a camera and I yearn for some interesting clouds in the sky but sometimes a clear blue sky can actually work quite well when the colours work as well together as I think they do here. This was shot on one of my Rolleiflex TLR film cameras and it is straight out of camera, I take a lot of bad pictures on film but when one comes off as well as this it just makes my day.
Medium format film photography
Rolleiflex 3.5F TLR
Schneider Kreuznach Xenotar 75mm f3.5
Ektar 100
(*Update - I'm reliably informed that this building is located at Exchange Gardens and it is an apartment complex in a larger development called Keybridge.)
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Busker on the Southbank in London, playing a Kora, a beautiful west African stringed instrument.
Some of you will have noticed that I'm off more than on Flickr these days, posting only sporadically. Just not feeling it at the moment but I do hope to post more again at some stage in the not too distant future.
35mm film photography
Pentax MZ50 SLR
Pentax-A 50mm f1.7
Fujifilm 200 colour film (converted to B&W)
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