Rock Solid: Mossbrae Falls, CA
First, I'd like to dedicate this post to my wife. Today, we have been married 10 years. She is my rock. She supports all my crazy endeavors and still loves me!
On my last (very eventful) trip up to Mossbrae Falls, I brought my 1950 Rolleiflex 120 film camera. I haven't shot film for at least a year or two, so it was fun to break out the film and make some exposures. I chose to bring a medium format camera, as I love the square format.
It is amazing how the basic principles of photography have remained rock solid through the years. Sure, technology has made photography more convenient, and refined the equipment, but you can still make amazing images with really old cameras... images that rival (and sometimes best) photos from the top digital SLRs today. It is one (of the many) things about photography that is refreshing.
I combined technology a bit on this, and scanned the negative with my flatbed scanner and processed the image digitally. I love printing images in the darkroom, but I just didn't make the time to do it for this roll. The film required a bit more sharpening than most of my images from my 5DmkII. The Rollei doesn't have a light meter, so I used some readings from my digital camera for a starting point. I also have an external light meter that works well for the Rollei. I am used to the quick and easy digital world, and what I like about film is that it requires me to slow down, compose, and shoot in a much more relaxed way.
Be sure to click on the image or press "L" to view this on a darker background, as the white background makes this look a little under exposed.
Rolleiflex Automat 6x6 Model K4
Tessar 3.5 Zeiss-Opton Lens @75mm
4 seconds @ F22
Kodak 100TMAX Film (a couple years old!)
B+W 023 3X dark yellow filter
Rock Solid: Mossbrae Falls, CA
First, I'd like to dedicate this post to my wife. Today, we have been married 10 years. She is my rock. She supports all my crazy endeavors and still loves me!
On my last (very eventful) trip up to Mossbrae Falls, I brought my 1950 Rolleiflex 120 film camera. I haven't shot film for at least a year or two, so it was fun to break out the film and make some exposures. I chose to bring a medium format camera, as I love the square format.
It is amazing how the basic principles of photography have remained rock solid through the years. Sure, technology has made photography more convenient, and refined the equipment, but you can still make amazing images with really old cameras... images that rival (and sometimes best) photos from the top digital SLRs today. It is one (of the many) things about photography that is refreshing.
I combined technology a bit on this, and scanned the negative with my flatbed scanner and processed the image digitally. I love printing images in the darkroom, but I just didn't make the time to do it for this roll. The film required a bit more sharpening than most of my images from my 5DmkII. The Rollei doesn't have a light meter, so I used some readings from my digital camera for a starting point. I also have an external light meter that works well for the Rollei. I am used to the quick and easy digital world, and what I like about film is that it requires me to slow down, compose, and shoot in a much more relaxed way.
Be sure to click on the image or press "L" to view this on a darker background, as the white background makes this look a little under exposed.
Rolleiflex Automat 6x6 Model K4
Tessar 3.5 Zeiss-Opton Lens @75mm
4 seconds @ F22
Kodak 100TMAX Film (a couple years old!)
B+W 023 3X dark yellow filter