late night oslo, pentax me loaded with kodak 400 tmy, and ghosts.

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inside an abandoned old dance club/youth club in sandset, vesterålen. evidence showed that through the years this place have been re-occupied by loafers, new-agers and kids feeding an urge to smash things to bits. my parents told me they came there often when they were younger, to dance and meet friends.

the canon a-1 is described as ‘the ultimate reference camera in many minds for over a quarter of a century’. read more about the wonderful a-1 here. i recently got this baby so cheap it’s almost funny – and that included the 50mm 1.4 lens.

cheap film (kodak 200 ‘color plus’). great camera.

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another one from the olympus om-30. the battery for the light meter was dead so i exposed this roll using manual mode. another roll got entirely ruined because i had the camera mistakenly set to automatic.

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olympus om-30, borrowed from a friend. cheap centuria 100 film from konica. expensive opera house in oslo.

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an autumn day in two thousand and eight, holding the pentax me packed with some ilford xp2 super chromogenic film. this is also one of those b/w films that you develop in c-41 color chemicals. it’s got a bit more contrast and it’s much sharper than the kodak bw400 cn, but i like them both for their unique characteristics; the kodak has a warmth to it that the ilford doesn’t match, and the ilford is clearer and more detailed.

both of which the kodak t-max combines beautifully.

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miranda sensomat re and the 50mm auto miranda 1.8 on a cold, cold january day, with some kodak bw400 cn. i was eager to see the results from this monochrome (or chromogenic) film, as it’s made to be developed in standard c-41 color chemicals – for convenience i guess. and convenient it was. i handed in the roll at a photo store in town and half an hour later it was done.

i kind of like the tones and the latitude. not too detailed or sharp, but still decent. but i’ll take the t-max or the tri-x any day.

watch this space for some ilford xp2 super photos soon – that’s another one of those handy c-41 monochromogenic(!) films!

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børre, cigarette and tea (or coffee) on an autumn day, two thousand and eight.

miranda sensomat re and some expired fuji superia 400 x-tra.

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taken on a lazy sunday some time in the late spring using my pentax me. it’s a great street shooter, fast and reliable. check out the news section for a little camera update!

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taken during rehearsal, some time this spring. frode fivel w/band:
top left: fredrik (drums, backing vocals)
top right: mikael (piano, organ)
mid left: magnus (guitar, backing vocals)
mid right: frode (vocals, guitar, the man)
low left: andré (bass, backing vocals)

pentax me using kodak tmax 400 and a vivitar 728af flash. can’t remember what lenses were used on which pictures, but these three were in use: 2,8 pentax 40mm, 2,8 vivtar 49mm, 3,8 vivitar 75-205mm.

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random shots from around town.
if you examine the pictures closely (it’s easy on the thumbnails anyway) you can see that there’s a streak of shading in them, approximately 1/4 wide and toward the edge of the frame. i think this is a case of slow shutter curtains in the poor old zenit. on this page, the author sort of brags about the excellence of the mechanics and design of the shutter curtains on zenit cameras, as opposed the leica, for instance. he’s probably right and all. i just happen to own a zenit that has started showing symptoms of age (and/or irregular or rare usage).

zenit 122 and fuji rxp (provia 400).

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shot a couple of rolls the same day i bought this camera. film choice based on cash available the very same day:

fuji acros 100 – got it cheap because it was expired by a few months. taken autumn 2007 using my wonderful pentax me and the vivitar 75-205 lens.

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