Field report- Voigtlander Bessa T
This is my journey from a Leica IIIa to a Bessa T, through a Bessa L. I just shot my first roll and wanted to share my experience.
This is my journey from a Leica IIIa to a Bessa T, through a Bessa L. I just shot my first roll and wanted to share my experience.
This is a field report of my first ever free camera. I found the Ricoh online in our local marketplace listed by someone who wanted to give it away. I am glad he gave it away because I would have probably not paid for it and missed out on a cute and potent camera.
It is not so often I get the chance to photograph a whole day. I did this on a Saturday in August when the Norwegian American car festival was celebrating their 50th year. I went there with my Rolleiflex and came back with five rolls of exposed film.
It is always so fun to bring to life a camera that you thought was dead junk. This Voigtländer Brillant from 1933 is probably the oldest camera I have. It is mainly a simple light-tight box with a lens. But it is still capable of taking some very nice photos in 6x6 format on 120 film.
My search for a 645 medium format camera ended with the Bronica ETRSi, mainly because of all the lovely photos taken with Zenzanon lenses that I saw on Instagram, but also because of its price. Now I am the happy owner of this camera and have already used it a lot. Time to start a field report!
Do you like the idea of a large-format view camera but don't want to jump into developing and handling large-format negatives? This was my idea when I bought a Horseman VH a year ago. This is a medium-format technical or view camera that has a good range of movements and allows you to get very close to large-format experience but stay within your 120 workflow.
I live close to the Gløshaugen campus of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), which is also where I work. I take a lot of photos in this area. The area has a mixture of parks and architecture.
I have acquired a 4x5 back for my Horseman VH view camera to be able to shoot instant photos on expired FP100c and FP3200b. What do you think about that? Here I write my informal experience report from this exercise.
I tried my luck with night photography on film! I loaded a film that I have never used in a camera that I have used only twice. I went out in the dark and stayed out for three hours. This is how it went. (The results are yet to come out of processing.)
One of the first film cameras I bought after starting again with film photography, and one of the few I have kept. This is an ongoing review and is updated as I use the camera.