Showing posts with label Voigtlander Perkeo GP3 Rodinal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Voigtlander Perkeo GP3 Rodinal. Show all posts

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Testing - again

Obviously it's a test isn't it? Seems like I'm getting somewhere too - even if it is just around the village with me Perkeo. Getting fed up with this testing, I might just have to take a snap in anger soon.
Big up today for my dear Eve who has her birthday today - as it was last year ! And to Mr Windy who is back with a shed-load of nice images from his big birthday dirty weekend away on the mainland [in and out of cafes, tea-dances and monuments I'm told]

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

Tests only

Test shot 1. A wire. They are everywhere and if you don't see them in shots you can be sure they have been cloned out. I love 'em. And posts. Down Crossbost way.

Test shot 2. That's a proper hill and everything at the back. The quad bike riders race up to it and make a right mess of the land.
Test shot 3. The village from a peat track. And the sea. Well, The Minch anyway. Which is probably sea since it stops the SS Muirneag going most nights it seems.

Before I post anything I have to tell you these were test shots. Just out and about by the village and snapping - as I do. The problem, such as it is, started a while back when the camera was partially taken apart to remove the sand in it after it fell face first onto the dune. I replaced the lens element, tried to set the focus point correctly - and I think I've not been too successful. I'll have another go.
Still, they are snaps, they are on film - albeit Chinese film coated with used chop-sticks or something. Hence the 'bits'.
And of course, these don't count as landscapes because they are tests, are out of focus in a wabi-sabi sort of way. And the Coelynes may be reading this!

Monday, November 29, 2010

Perkeo

Wicker
No wicker

I'm always reading that this or that camera is better than the other. There's new imaging devices out there that mimic cross-processed film at the push of a button and they are tiny - or huge - like the DSLR's you see people hawking around with a huge great lens hanging off the front.
I don't have electronic cameras just film ones and this one I like very much. It's is small and simple, takes medium format film yet folds up and fits in my pocket or bag. And it was given to me by a kind American gent.
I took it out for a spin the other day and came back with these two among other images.