The Day All The Boats Came Home

The day all the boats came home... No fishing boats out at sea today its X-Mass day.

Canon A1 Canon 50mm f1.8 + Yellow Filter Film= Kodak Tri-X Dev= Agfa Photo Rodinal Special

Skegness November 06

Skegness beach. The FWD is towing the figure on the board, it was a very cold day and the seafront was almost deserted.

Canon A1 Canon 28mm/f2.8+orange filter. Film= Kodak Tri-X 400 Dev= Agfa Photo Rodinal Special

Please Do Not Feed The Birds!

The sign reads please do not feed the birds as they damage the buildings, lots of people do though.

Leica IIIF/ Collapsable Fed 50mm/f3.5 Fomapan 400+R09 1:40

River Bed

River Bed

I took this shot in the early summer when repairs were being made to the sluce gates at sluce Bridge in Boston. This is the only time I have ever seen the river completly dry.

Canon T70 Canon 28mm/f2.8. Ilford FP4 +Ilford ID11 Stock

Contax and the Clown

Boston

This shot is taken using a Contax III, this is 1940's 35mm Rangefinder camera.

It is fitted with a coated 50mm/f2 Sonnar. Kodak Tri-X400

The Sally-Ann

Nikon FE 28mm/f3.5 Nikkor. Ilford Delta 400 +Ilford DDX

Boston 10/12/06 ADOX / EFKE CHS 25 + APH09

I haven't shot any slow B&W film for a while, I have mainly been shooting Tri-X and Delta 400. I was using a Leica II last week in Norwich and using Plus-X pan and Pan F+. You get so much more detail with the slower emultions.

Saturday was a very clear sunny day, an ideal oppertunity to use a 25 ASA film.

ADOX CHS 25 is one of the very few 25asa films on the market.

Both shots are shot using my 28mm f3.5 Nikkor + Yellow #1 Filter.

The film is developed in Adolux APH09 AKA old formula Rodinal, I used it at 1-100, this is supposed to give you soft negatives and fine grain. The negs are a bit on the soft side for scanning with my clunky old scanner, but will print well.

Nikon FE 28/3.5 Nikkor

Boston 03/12/06 Leica IIC 5cm & 9cm Elmar

5 cm Elmar

9 cm Elmar










Couple of shots here from Boston , I was Testing a couple of new lenses and using Ilford pan F+
The Lenses are Leitz Elmar' s One is a coated 5cm f3.5 Elmar manufactured just after WWII and the other is a 9cm f4 Elmar manufatured just before WWII. In short they are good.
Both shots have been taken with a Leitz Yellow #1 filter Exopsure for the First shot is 1/100 @f8 the second shot using the 9cm lens is at 1/200 @f 5.6
There is a similar shot taken using Ilford FP4 in the June archive of this blog you can compare the Elmar to a 1970'S 50mm F2 Nikkor link is below.

http://newyorkmonochrome.blogspot.com/2006/06/windmill-in-boston-taken-from.html


Leica IIC Leitz Elmar 5cm f 3.5 & Leitz Elmar 9cm f 4 Film Ilford Panf+ Dev Agfa Rodinal 1-25

Couple of wide angle shots from Boston

Customs House Quey

Dolphin Lane

I took these two shots using an 18mm lens, this is a very wide angle lens and was rather expensive ..but good fun!!

Nikon FE + Nikkor 18mm f-4 Ilford Delta 400 EI 400 Dev Ilford DDX

Norwich 02/12/06 Leica IIC & PLUS-X PAN

I have not been using my Leica's much lately so I took my Leica IIC with me when I visited Norwich. It came with a 1948 vintage 5cm coated Elmar lens and a 1938 vintage un-coated 9cm Elmar lens, Both are in good order.

The two shots above are shot on Kodak Plus-X Pan (old emulsion) @125 asa and developed in Agfa Rodinal 1-50 The exposure was 1/30 @ f5.6

It was rather a gloomy day on Saturday but I think the camera has peformed well.. it is over 60 years old!

Makes a nice change from using a modern Nikon SLR.