Lily Test
I tested another camera this weekend. So what is new you guys are wondering (me too). This time it was a little point and shoot Pentax – the Espio 120SW. I knew of this camera from the excellent Film Advance blog where it is listed as one of Gary’s favourite cameras. Gary lives in the same town as me and we went out to shoot one day and it was his pocket camera so I had a close look at it then. When I saw one in the thrift store for $9 I had a pretty good idea what I was getting into.
This is the second shot I took with the camera. The flash fired when not intended (I really must remember to turn flashes off on these more modern point and shoots). The telephoto was extended quite a bit and I measured my distance with the long strap. Did you know that there was a time when these cameras came with a strap the same length as their nearest focal distance? Can make for a long strap, but very useful!
I very much like the feel of this shot. A bit soft, but that works well. I am thinking of lending it to someone for a trip overseas so I got the negatives scanned commercially in order to show them the quality they can expect.
Olympus XA2 and Keeping Notes
This post covers both my 2016 Roll 11 at 52Rolls.net and an impromptu review of FilmTrackr, software I have been using on my phone to keep track of film, cameras and individual shots. Even if that latter is of no interest, there are some photos from this roll that have not been posted on BurntEmbers, or at least not in colour. So follow the link to 52Rolls.net!
I continue to work through my backlog and rolls of film that I scavenged for my blog over the past few weeks. In this case I published a few of these already, but most of them with black and white conversions. This is the last roll of a no-name rebranded 400 ISO film that expired some unknown time in the past. I bought several rolls of this film and the results were a bit mixed. This one had a very weird colour cast to it, or at least to some of it and I found it really hard to scan. I really should rescan it, but I doubt that will happen now. Too much in my to-be-scanned pile, and more on the way.
In fact, I can tell you exactly how many remain rolls remain to be scanned (4 rolls) because at the beginning of the year I started use…
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Expired Kodak Gold in Elan IIe
Here is my week 10 post from the 52Rolls project which features a roll that I have dipped into the past few weeks for posts here at my daily photo blog. I tried to keep some good ones aside for 52 Rolls, so click the link and check them out!
The dinghy picture above is one of my favourites of the past few years – I ran a black and white version on my blog a few weeks ago in a post called Tender. On balance I think I prefer the black and white, though either will do – this one has that sepia tone feel that sometimes works well. As with yesterday’s post I have culled good shots from this roll for my blog while dealing with work pressures. Other images from this roll can be found at this link and the rest below.
I found the Canon Elan IIe in a thrift shop, with kit lens, camera case, working battery and a roll of Kodak Gold 400. So of course I ran that roll of film through the camera as a test, which is what we are looking at here. As you can see the film was…
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First Roll of Rollei CR200
Here is my 52Rolls post with the rest of the Rollei CR200 roll of film I have been teasing my Burnt Embers readers with for a few weeks. I really like this film, there is going to be some to hand whenever I can get it.
Looks like I have fallen a month or so behind on this project. I have been up against a deadline and only just keeping my own blog active. But that deadline is past and now I can catch up a bit. I have not shot much in the past few weeks, but did shoot nearly 3 dozen rolls before my nose met the grindstone. To keep my blog going I have mined those rolls for good shots, but trying to leave a few nice ones so I can use some here too.
This is especially true of this roll of Rollei CR200. It is the first time I have used this film and am really pleased with it. I think it needs to be shot a bit slower, probably metering for ISO 160 would be good. But other than that I like the colours, the grain I can live with and in…
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The Resurrection of a Zither Banjo
This rather sad Zither Banjo tugged at my heart-strings with a song of longing for repair. I bought it on a whim hating to see what seemed a nice instrument in such a sorry state. I had the idea it could be fixed and hoped (for no rational reason) that it was not going to be too expensive to fix. Looking it over the neck looked good, the hardware seemed fine, the vellum was in good condition. However, the fingerboard was both split down the middle and also shrunk. The frets were sticking out 1 or 2mm beyond the end of the fingerboard, on both sides. The back was lifting off and the peghead facing was split. So, I bought it a price that I would not regret if the banjo turned out to be too expensive to fix, which as you will see below, it wasn’t.
Tripping VII
I have been exceptionally busy with a deadline but in a few days should be able to resurface.
And then I can work up some negatives that have waited for my deadline to pass.
And that will allow us all to break free of these rolls of film that I have doled out bit by bit for weeks now. Good thing I had a backlog.
Another from the Olympus Trip first, and so far only, test roll. I need to replace the light seal before putting more film through it.
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