Mural
A mural in downtown Victoria. I have a post over at 52 Rolls today (here) and this mural is there too, though partially double exposed.
Other places where I have published this mural on film include here and here.
This is the tail end of a roll of film loaded to shoot in lower light conditions in the studio.
I did not get the colour balance completely right in the outdoor shots – I find it a bit tricky to scan this film.
Even so, I like these colours.
A previous image posted from this roll is Oxford Foods.
Concert With Point and Shoot
Here is the companion post from 52 Rolls to yesterday’s Burnt Embers post. These are the colour versions which I converted in yesterday’s post to black and white.
At the end of last month I attended a concert that was to raise funds for the youth music program in Port Renfrew. Port Renfrew is a couple of hours from Victoria on the southwest coast of Vancouver Island. I went because my son was (a) playing and (b) teaches in the music program. I did not go with the idea of taking many photos and expected that a concert photographer would be there, which there was. Thus I only brought an Olympus mjuii (Stylus Epic) in my pocket and one roll each of Lomography Colour 800 and Ilford Delta 3200 just in case there was a chance to take a few shots. It is nowhere near an ideal camera for shooting a concert as the lens is a bit wide at 35mm and the flash has to be shut off every time the camera is turned on. But, it does have several advantages that most other point and…
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There is a Point to Hope
Hope is more than one place.
My first archaeological project was in Hope. 90 miles or so east of Vancouver.
There was a point to hope.
The point has been built over into oblivion.
The only evidence is a sign.
Point Hope Shipyard.
Sam Weber Band V
A few more shots from the fundraising concert which included the Sam Weber band.
These black and white shots are converted from colour, and the colour versions are on my 52Rolls project today at A Concert With mjuii.
I have previously taken pictures of this group on film which can be found at at the Sam Weber tag.
Surpising Canon Sure Shot 115u
Reblogging is back at 52 Rolls, so here is the snippet and link for my Roll 5 in the 2016 project.
I found this little zoom film camera to live up to the standards set by earlier Sureshots. And to be a step above all the others I have used including Olympus mju series zooms, Yashica point and shoot zooms and Pentax Espio ones. That said, I have not yet found an Espio 120SW, which gets good reviews such as this very well presented one: link.
Last month I bought three point and shoot zoom film cameras – mostly because they had film in them, and working batteries. I expected very little from them, and as you can see from the Pentax Espio 738g that I previously wrote about (here), my expectations were not unreasonable. However, this Canon Sure Shot 115u (Prima Super 115u in Europe and Autoboy N 115 in Japan) was a pleasant surprise. It is capable of taking quite good pictures, despite a 38-115mm ranging from f5.6 to f13 through the 3X zoom range. Dating to the dawn of digital point and shoots (2003) it has a wide range of features of the type you would expect on a small digital camera of that era – various shooting and metering modes, date stamping, macro mode and the like. It really has too many features with a lot of complicated menus on an…
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Tender
A house-boat tender in Victoria’s Gorge waterway, viewed from a trestle walkway.
This is another camera test, this time with film that was in the camera bag. The film was Kodak Gold 400 and was pretty much shot, but this image works very well in black and white, so the film condition turned out to be a benefit.
The film is not a good test for the camera though. It is a Canon Elan IIe, the close cousin to my Elan 7N which is in many ways my favourite 35mm film camera. I could not resist the camera with kit lens, roll of film and camera bag for $29. The camera appears in new condition, and seems to be exposing well though with this film that is very hard to say with confidence. The autofocus is working, as are other features that I played with. There seem to be light leaks along the door, hardly surprising as the door latch broke when I was loading the film (or fell apart, it might have been broken already) – this is a woefully common problem with the Elan series cameras, and Canon has stopped supplying the part. I taped up the latch edge of the door for these tests, but not the long edges. My next test will have the long edges taped, and new film.
I have ordered two door latch assemblies from a UK supplier that still have some stock. Researching this camera leads me to expect the 7N door catch to break at some point as well. If this camera tests out the rest of the way, I will replace its latch and door seals. The second latch will be handy as a backup. Perhaps someday someone will 3D print a metal or other durable catch of some kind – the plastic originals are clearly not up to the job and these cameras are certainly worth keeping in service. Besides which, taping a film door is a pain and lousy substitute for a latch.
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