Some shots of Angel Peak, NM, a scenic area near here. Shot on Kodachrome 64 with the 1N.

 
A shot from some efke KB25 film - I've only tried one roll, but I like 
the results very much. It's a film that's apparently made similarly to the films of 50-60 years ago, with high silver content, and of course it's ISO 25 so the grain is tiny and it's really sharp. I got it processed by a place called dr5 in Denver - they process regular B&W film to make positive slides, which project extremely well and scan well too.

Taken with my 1N and Asahi 135mm 3.5 Super Takumar, of my M3 with Voigtlander 35mm color-skopar.

These are some that I printed on photographic paper using a homemade 'enlarger' (very loosely used). It was a cardboard box filled with tinfoil with a hole on each end, a light bulb in one end and the other end open, two sheets of paper as diffusers in the middle, a plastic picture holder with a negative in it taped to the box, then a plate with a 55mm SLR lens in front of that, all inside a changing bag. I taped the paper to the wall in the dark and made the exposure, then developed it in some tinfoil casserole dishes. They aren't straight scans, the contrast was pretty crappy in the prints due to light leakage.

It was a pretty fun project, but I want a real enlarger now... The good thing about it was, all I had to buy was the trays, paper and print developer, which were about 30 bucks. The fixer, lens, and light bulb were only about another 30 actually, and I had the boxes, tinfoil, changing bag, and negative holder.

Well, I guess I failed the whole 2006 thing... congrats to everyone who made it. I'm going to keep doing it as a periodic update blog, and I might update the links section if I stop being lazy...

Here's a shot that was kind of an accident... It was half whited out because I can't load my Leica without wasting the first shot, or the film won't stay on the spool and I'll get very frustrated when I realize I was playing pretend photographer at the end of the 'roll'. The store's scanner apparently compensated for the white half by darkening the rest of the picture, and apparently there was enough DR in the film to make it look decent.


I admit it, I miss digital. I'm also having fun playing with B&W, and I don't regret buying the M3 since I do realize that rangefinders are perfectly suited for some of my stuff, and there's no way I'm selling it. Going to buy at least one camera this year, and I'm thinking about the Pentax K10D because I've been impressed with the M42 lenses I've been shooting, and the 31mm limited looks amazing.