These are cool, I like that wine pour. Nothing quite in focus but very much the feeling you get at dinner sometimes. Turned out great!
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I bought myself an Olympus XA as a treat. Something to keep in my bag with a roll of cheap colour film in it. It’s the smallest full frame rangefinder ever made. Designed by Yoshihisa Maitani, of Olympus Pen F, Trip 35, and OM-1 fame.
I shot a roll of Kodak Ultramax 400 and got it developed yesterday. I am blown away by how nice the lens is. It gets mad lens flare, but that’s kinda cool I reckon. For those of you who have had their eye on these cameras before, I can confirm the hype is real. The rangefinder is pretty tricky to use, but you can definitely get some tack sharp focus with it in bright daylight. It is super tiny too, fits in a jeans pocket.
Please enjoy some colourful photos from around my neck of the woods ^_^
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Love the XA, beautiful shots! I have a rough one on the shelf to tear apart and try fixing. Fixed up an XA4 and it’s fantastic for wide shots and macro shooting but the zone focus system is annoying. If the shutter ever gets no responsive it’s real easy to fix the spring release. Actually need to go in and touch that up on my 4, maybe this weekend…
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has this youtube channel been posted here before?
interviews with street photographers, lets you get insight into how they approach photography and such. really cool imo. always looking out for more informative channels like these.
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Tatiana Hopper is a great photography YouTuber too, breaks down styles and historic photographers. Feel like I learn a few things everytime she drops a video.
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got some 35mm (kodak portra pro 400) back from my trip to italy last month.
they gotta lotta arches over there.
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I bought myself a Pentax 17. I find the idea of half-frame interesting, but I mostly wanted to vote with my wallet on this film resurgence. And do my part in funding Ricoh to make a GR2 film camera (fingers crossed).
Time for specifics. I kept sitting on the fence with this purchase because I could not find anything on the internet with a size comparison between the Pentax 17 and its dinky digital distant cousin, my favourite pocketable digital camera, the Ricoh GR III. It was important to me that it wasn’t too much bigger. So I decided to do it myself.
Dear everyone like me,
Information for you, the members of this forum, or for those of you visiting explorers lost in a heckish search engine query desperately using quotation in a vain attempt at discovering what I so comprehensively failed to unearth. I present a specific size comparison of a Ricoh GR III and a Pentax 17.
<3 Matt
If any of you are interested in my thoughts on the camera, well, not too sure just yet. Haven’t taken any photos because it just arrived in the mail. However I will comment that the camera feels great in the hand and it feels and looks very well made. It has some plastic bits for certain, but I think it’s very nice. The film advance lever is lovely to use too. And it does fit in a pocket, but it’s a bit lumpy.
Once I manage to get through, < reads manual > 72 shots! Crikey. I will report back with some images :)
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Wow, glad they kept it small! Can’t wait to see your results, happy shooting!
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some shots from Boston, MA. The pictures I took here largely turned out better than my first roll, I kept the focus on “infinite” for the vast majority of these instead of the more specific focus settings for subjects 1, 3, 5m away settings. Kodak UltraMax 400 film.
(I asked this guy if I could take his picture and he was thrilled lol)
(this one was technically in Connecticut I think, on the train down to Jersey)
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That Trip 35 seems to be working wonderfully. Nice shots :)
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Hey! Been pretty absent from the forums for a while, gonna try to remedy that. On a plane to Portland for some time on the coast then the Retro Gaming Expo, so just a quick post from my phone, but I wanted to say I love all everything I’m seeing while catching up on posts! So many film posts, it’s wonderful to see <3
I packed my backpack solid with photo equipment for the trip, hoping to go nuts with some 35mm and 120 while I’m over there. Have my Leica M6 and Mamiya 7ii plus 3 lenses for each, plus two bags of film that’s been languishing in the fridge. I picked up the M6 at blue moon camera in Portland back in 2022 (amazing shop), so it’s a little bit of a homecoming for it I guess.
I hadn’t been shooting for a while up until a month or so ago, but the photography bug bit me hard and I’ve been trying to get out more. I’ll have to post some more stuff, but I think my favorite set is from wandering around Times Square/Rockefeller Center with the M6 and some CineStill 800T and HP5 (latter pushed +1). I didn’t fuss over the settings too much and pretty much shot everything wide open on the Summicron 35 at 1/30 or 1/60. I’ve also started scanning at home with my canon mirrorless and negative lab pro, looks way better than what I was getting from the labs.
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lovely 
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wow that lens is way sharper than I would have thought. good stuff!
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These rule!
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those hot dog cart pix are pure art!
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