Enjoyed this set as much as I've enjoyed any for some time, Larry. What a fun inspiration. The lens surprised me a little, too. (cough-cough..d--- dust)
Jack --- On Sat, 9/11/10, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Larry Colen <[email protected]> > Subject: OT GESO Argus C3 at burning man > To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> > Date: Saturday, September 11, 2010, 1:01 PM > I brought my Argus C3 to burning man > on a lark. I thought that it would be fun nostalgia to run a > roll or two of film through. I grabbed my probably > expired unshot rolls of film to shoot with. I wasn't > too worried about image quality, it was more a case of just > playing with an old toy that I hadn't shot with in about 37 > years. > > By the time I'd get out of camp in the afternoon the > weather was generally windy and dusty enough that I didn't > want to risk the DSLRs so I ended up spending more time (at > least during the day) shooting with the Argus than with my > Pentaxen. Arguably, I should have put my 50/1.4 on the K1000 > body that I brought along but I was having too much fun > shooting with the Argus. I also like to think that I was > learning a lot, being forced to shoot at a much slower pace > where every step had to be done sequentially, and manually, > to the point that winding the film and cocking the shutter > were different actions. > > For your amusement: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157624809385751/ > > I'm not going to claim that any of these met my goal of > only taking excellent shots, but if you cut some slack on > technical details like sharpness, I think I got a few good > ones, but even more important I had a lot of fun taking > them. Shooting film again is also giving me a renewed > appreciation of shooting digital, where ISO 200 is > considered slow, rather than moderately fast. > > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] > sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link > directly above and follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
