Jan 21, 2012 | Uncategorized
A quicky.
I have been silent as I have been away on business. I am going to say no more because I never know who is reading this but suffice to say it was the first time that I have bumped knuckles and said “respect” to someone – actually several people – without feeling like an ass.
There will come a point where I will write more because aspects of the trip impacted on me really quite profoundly and was the sort of experience for which blogging – at leat this blog – was meant. Sorry to be vague and allusive. Watch this space.
Jan 8, 2012 | Uncategorized
So, 2012 then. Frankly, I’m still struggling to cope with the fact that we are into the second decade of the 21st Century.
living in the past
The first eight days have been a bit dull to be honest, so dull that I effectively went back to work before the holiday period was done. The dreadful weather didn’t help of course and working seemed a decent way to stave off cabin fever.
Still, I did have a minor triumph today in knocking down the price of our cable/broadband package while upgrading the service we receive (hello 30Meg broadband, hello HD TV) although on reflection it was so easy that I now wonder what more I could have got had I been more argumentative and awkward.
Just for once it paid to read junk mail: I normally put it straight into the bin but on this occasion I checked the deal being offered to new customers of my existing provider and realised that it was better than the one I have and considerably cheaper. Virgin Media customer services didn’t even bother to argue, hence my wondering about what else might have been on offer.
out t'back
I got the first roll of film back that I ran through a Contax 139Q that I picked up from eBay. I’m quite pleased with the shots although I am trying to work out if there is a slight tendency towards over-exposure .
In stark contrast to last year, we have had little snow this winter but the shot to the left, which started of as a colour pic., was taken on the day that we had some. Although the colour original looks overexposed on the scan it didn’t take much to bring up some detail and contrast in Lightroom so the apparent over-exposure may be an artefact of the scanning process.
I ran a comparison of the suggested metre readings from all of my cameras a couple of weeks ago and most were in agreement with each other. Although the 139 did seem to give a marginally different reading to the Canons, which have recently been serviced and calibrated, it wasn’t by much (maybe 1/3 stop) and seemed to tally with the reading from my Leica digital.
I am well aware that it is the photographer not the camera that makes the shots but it does help to know how the camera is likely to react in any given circumstance. All that being so, I am so enjoying the journey back to film that I am toying with investing in a scanner to copy my old negatives and slides to digital files.
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