Steel City Snapper photography
35mm, medium format and large format film photography (with the odd bit of digital every now and then…)
Another picture that’s been sat unpublished since 2019. A little cropping, rotating, and a black & white conversion, and this has turned into a really nice picture, I think.
Panasonic Lumix GX7 & Panasonic Lumix G Vario 12-60 mm f/3.5-5.6 Asph.
Taken on 28 May 2019
Still posting digital shots it seems, although today I have a good reason – I had to fetch my wife and her sister from the airport and it ended up being a 5-hour round trip!
Will I post the final batch of Madeira pictures tomorrow? I guess you’ll have to wait and see (but I’m not making any promises, lol).
Panasonic Lumix GX7 & Panasonic Lumix 20mm f/1.7 ASPH.
Taken on 12 September 2026
Panasonic Lumix GX7 & Panasonic Lumix 20mm f/1.7 ASPH.
Taken on 12 September 2026
I’ll be back on the film shots soon. I have some remaining pictures from Madeira to finish off that set, then I’ll move onto something else from the huge backlog (well, several rolls…) I’ve yet to upload, scan or develop.
Another from my walk out with the Lumix GX7 for today’s post though.
Panasonic Lumix GX7 & Panasonic Lumix 20mm f/1.7 ASPH.
Taken on 12 September 2026
This 1997 Volvo 940 estate caught my eye while I was out yesterday. I looked to be in pristine condition.
It made me think of the occasional posts Jim Grey does on old cars parked.
The old Lumix GX7 and the tiny 20mm pancake lens has done another good job here, and there’s plenty of resolution even from a cropped 16mp 4:3 file.
Panasonic Lumix GX7 & Panasonic Lumix 20mm f/1.7 ASPH.
Taken on 12 September 2026
I’ve been spending a little time looking back at older pictures in my archive recently. Sometimes there are images hidden away in there that I didn’t spot the potential of at the time (sometimes, usually with digital, because I just had too many to go through)
Here’s one of those images, taken somewhere in Manhattan (I’m not sure where exactly – perhaps someone recognizes the spot – maybe the Applebees will give it away) during our last visit back in 2019. I really like the tonality from the bright sunlit buildings at the top of the frame, to the shadowy fall off at the bottom.
It made me think that I ought to shoot with my micro four thirds kit again – it’s been sat mostly unused for several years (apart from an outing a couple of weeks ago where I wanted to test some ND grad filters that I’m planning on using with my film cameras).
Despite its age, it’s clearly still a very capable camera. It’s also the only digital camera I own that lets me shoot at a 40mm prime focal length, which is something I like. It will pair nicely with the 28mm of my Ricoh GRIII in that regard.
And so I took it out with me today and shot a bunch of frames. My goal was to get a single picture that I liked, but I ended up with several. I’ll perhaps share some here when I’ve processed them.
Panasonic Lumix GX7 & Panasonic Lumix G Vario 12-60 mm f/3.5-5.6 Asph.
Taken on 28 May 2019
My wife and I took a trip to the seaside today. Walking was done, fish and chips and ice creams were eaten, and photos were taken.
By the time I get through my significant backlog of developing, scanning, and uploading, it will probably be 2027 by the time those see the light of day on the blog though!
So here’s another seaside picture from almost five years ago, back in 2021, which I recently re-edited and uploaded.
Ricoh GR III
Taken on 16 September 2021
Ricoh GR III
Taken on 15 August 2026
A mini-break from the Madeira pictures today. More of them still to come though.
I went for a walk around Damflask reservoir this morning. It sits to the north-west of Sheffield and is the lowest of four reservoirs that sit in the same valley system (the others being Agden, Dale Dyke, and Strines). I’ve visited Damflask on multiple occasions, particularly when I was a lot younger, and more recently driving past it when visiting the villages of High and Low Bradfield. Today was the first time I’ve ever walked around the entire thing though.
I was there to shoot film primarily, and I’ve got a bunch of shots to be developed, but I also had a second agenda, namely to test out some neutral density grad filters. I’ve had a set of Cokin filters for years but only used them on a very small number of occasions, probably due to the faff of having to attach them, but recently I’ve been thinking that they might be helpful with film photography – particularly if I’m shooting something with a tighter exposure latitude, such as slide film.
However, I didn’t want to waste film on experiments, so I took along a digital camera as well. Any mistakes with that would cost me nothing more than a bit of time. So into my camera bag with my Nikon F80 went my old Lumix GX7 micro-four-thirds camera with a 12-60mm lens (24-120mm full frame equivalent). This was the first time I’ve used the camera in around six years.
I only took a few shots with the GX7, most of which are nothing to write home about, but the one shot where I used the grad filter (a 2-stop soft grad, I think) came out nicely, as did another picture without the filter, both of which you can see in today’s post (the first with the filter).
I took very similar shots with my F80 (which was sporting an actual 24-70mm lens, so the focal lengths will mostly match up) and it will be interesting to see how they compare. These didn’t have the benefit of any filters.
But the experiment worked ok. I like how the grad filter added mood to the sky and I’ll give it a run with a film camera when the need arises. If I get good results, I might invest in a more expensive set.
Panasonic Lumix GX7 & Panasonic Lumix G Vario 12-60mm f/3.5-5.6 Asph.
Taken on 22 August 2026
A window display consisting of a series of rotating wheels made up of tubes of makeup, or maybe skin-care products caught my eye in Funchal, both in terms of the colourful display, but also the way the chequered pavement was reflected in the glass.
Ricoh GR III
Taken on 24 June 2026
