"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
06/01/2020 at 21:59 • Filed to: photography
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"gmctavish needs more space" (gmctavish)
06/01/2020 at 21:59 • Filed to: photography | 7
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I had one roll of Ektar in my Minolta XE-7 that I took a couple months to shoot, get developed, and edit. Most of it is nothing special but it’s not bad either. Taken with a few lenses: 28mm f2.5, 35-70mm f3.5, 50mm f1.7, and 100mm f2.5.
Got the edge of the chainlink fence in there.....
1.6 million right there
Now for a few 120 shots of Ektar, from one of the cameras I was testing. A Mamiya 23 Standard, with a 90mm f3.5 lens, and a 6x7 rollfilm back. I wasn’t very impressed with it, the photos came out very flat, and not very sharp. They pale in comparison to what my RB67 can do, and the C330 I was testing as well, which are both also Mamiyas. But the 23 was intended as a press camera, so lightness was the goal rather than ultimate quality.
Not sure if I screwed up, or the lab did, but it’s a good thing it was just a test roll...
fintail
> gmctavish needs more space
06/01/2020 at 22:37 |
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You could say the first pic is from 1988, and nobody would know any better.
PyramidHat
> gmctavish needs more space
06/01/2020 at 22:59 |
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Love me some film! Did you scan at home? The medium format shots have so much depth. Got me a Yashica 124 and a Bronica ETR in my collection.
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> gmctavish needs more space
06/01/2020 at 23:15 |
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I really love these. You can tell it is real film because digital cameras with filters just can’t get that certain texture that you can’t quite pinpoint. I especially love the industrial themed ones because the subject matter befits the medium so well. This one in particular speaks to me. Where were you? Obviously BC but where?
The only reason you can tell this is modern day is that there is no trash and debris on the ground.
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gmctavish needs more space
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06/01/2020 at 23:25 |
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Thanks! Yeah once I started shooting on film I was hooked by that, and now I spend too much money on it...
That photo is taken in Vancouver, specifically from Powell st near the port, that’s the Rogers Sugar building, it’s been refining sugar since 1890
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gmctavish needs more space
> PyramidHat
06/01/2020 at 23:29 |
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No they’re lab scans, the 35mm is with a Noritsu Koki, and the 120 is with a Fuji Frontier. I have to say I massively prefer the Noritsu. I have a really good scanner here, a Minolta Scan Multi Pro, but it stopped booting up and I can’t find anywhere to repair it other than one shop in Germany...
They’re not my favourite medium format shots I’ve taken, but maybe I was a bit hard on them, they’re kinda cool.
Nice, the only medium format camera I own is an RB67, I just have a C330 and a 23 Standard hanging out here while I wait for them to sell. I do quite like the C330, but the RB67 is more my speed. I like the super loud mirror slap
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> gmctavish needs more space
06/01/2020 at 23:30 |
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I love the aesthetic but don’t have the time or money to try for fear other more important things might fall by the wayside. I really enjoy the focus in that first roll on perhaps less obvious subject matters: finding the harmony and beauty in chaotic scenes. I enjoy similar challenges but I’m not quite sure I succeed. Just phone camera stuff so less impressive.
I love even those seemingly mundane historical facts. I think you really captured the nuance of the place.
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> fintail
06/01/2020 at 23:30 |
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I sometimes
try to take photos like that, I like the idea of someone coming across them in 50 years and thinking they’re even older than they really are
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gmctavish needs more space
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06/01/2020 at 23:34 |
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Well thanks, that means a lot to hear, that’s often what I’m hoping to do with my photos. I was actually especially going for that with that roll, since I started it at the beginning of covid and was staying pretty close to home, so I was finding new perspectives and framing in areas I’m already very familiar with.
Phone cameras may not be the best, but they’re always with you, and as the saying goes, the best camera is whatever one you have with you
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> gmctavish needs more space
06/01/2020 at 23:44 |
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I recognized pretty much the same mindset that I’ve been throwing at most of the photos I’ve taken recently. And the home photography contest as well.
I just enjoy how a photo can represent a frame of mind. A few months ago I was very very depressed and took a long midnight walk through the abandoned town square and the photos I took clearly represented this.
In this confusing time my photos have also begun to be a bit chaotic. Actually that inner harmony is an ongoing theme but especially in these uncertain times. I find the challenge of discovering new perspectives on familiar things fun and also surprisingly difficult. Staying so close to home you kind of have to try something new to stay sane.
Spasoje
> gmctavish needs more space
06/02/2020 at 00:50 |
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The first photo batch’s ...uh...natural filter (for lack of a better word) makes them look like they were taken in the seventies! Reminds me of those 70s photo reels that get posted online from time to time (i.e “look at what Vancouver looked like in 1978,” etc). It’s a cool effect.
Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> gmctavish needs more space
06/02/2020 at 01:03 |
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Nice pics. Having worked in the business for years I still have a soft spot for film. I just wish I still ran the lab so I wouldn’t have to pay for developing and printing.
Quick question on that Vandura - was it Rusty?..
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gmctavish needs more space
> Spasoje
06/02/2020 at 01:41 |
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Some of that is the yellowed coating on my 28mm, and some of that is just how Ektar responds to haziness. I like it, definitely vintagey. I mean part of it is just that it’s lenses from the 70s, so I suppose it makes sense that it looks kinda 70s. Plus I don’t usually like including modern things in my photos
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gmctavish needs more space
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
06/02/2020 at 01:48 |
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I get scans instead of prints, but yeah it’s not a cheap process. I want a working good scanner to at least take out paying for that step.
The Vandura is actually like new. I delivered to that shop all the time up until 3 years ago, and saw it go through most of the restoration process. It belongs to someone at that shop, and there’s a body shop next door that did the paint.
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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> gmctavish needs more space
06/02/2020 at 02:05 |
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I did notice how amazingly clean that Vandura was, and thus my joke kinda fell flat ...
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gmctavish needs more space
> Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
06/02/2020 at 03:14 |
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Ahh gotcha. I thought you might’ve been wondering if it was really as clean as it looked, since they sometimes hide their rust
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Full of the sound of the Gran Fury, signifying nothing.
> gmctavish needs more space
06/02/2020 at 03:27 |
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And that’s why I wrote ‘Rusty’ instead of ‘rusty’. I know it was subtle, but I tried.