On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Had to stop after a while as flickr is still (to me) such a PIA to use. That being said, fun stuff. I particularly liked http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/4980515966/in/set-72157624809385751/ and this http://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/4979871787/in/set-72157624809385751/ cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- 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.
