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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polaroid supercolor 635cl, friday the 13th.

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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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kodak 400tx (tmy) in the bronica on an autumn day, two thousand and eight.

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top : backseat polaroid shot from near the finnish border in finnmark.
bottom : wysiwyg, really.

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top: beer-bench near latter, finnmark – kodak 400 tmy

middle: another chair photo, oslo – ilford xp2 super

bottom: benedicte doing her infamous cross-eye pose – ilford xp2 super

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taken in july. we had indecently long lunches. the old man didn’t seem to mind, though.

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1, 2, 3 : polaroiding in the botanical gardens, grønland, oslo.
4 : van parked by the old ringnes brewery

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the hotel riga, where we stayed. the corridors were delightfully creepy. jack would feel very much at home here, methinks.
holga 120 cfn and kodak portra 400 vc.

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little accidents from riga.
shot this may using fuji superia 200 (bought in riga at a silly price) and the trusty ol’ pentax me.

the bottom picture is from an awsome outdoor photo exhibition at the doma square in riga. the original documentary project from 1987 was followed by a “20 years later” edition in 2007. read more about it here. works from the exhibition can be found here.

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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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ole having a beer, me having a brand new old tlr camera, bought from an antique store. i had beer too of course. a few weeks later the camera broke.

meopta flexaret and ilford 400 hp5 plus.

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