Steel City Snapper photography
35mm, medium format and large format film photography (with the odd bit of digital every now and then…)
I’ve already shared a few pictures from this foggy day out taken with my digital camera. Now I’m getting around to sharing the ones I shot on film. More to come…
Nikon F80 and Nikkor 28-80mm f/3.5-5.6 AF-D on Tri-X Pan Kodak Tri-X Pan (likely expired sometime in the 1990s) @125asa
Ilfotec DD-X. 1+4 8mins @ 20°.
Taken on 21 March 2026
Nikon F80 and Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF-D on Fomapan 400. Rodinal 1+25. 6.5mins @ 20°.
Taken on 13 March 2026
I’m not one for Latin, but I think that’s maybe “High Horse” to you and I. The sculpture stands atop a tall metal column in the Trinity Leeds shopping centre.
It represents the pack horses that were used in the wool and textile trades, for which the city of Leeds was a major centre.
Its sculptor, Andy Scot, is perhaps best known for his work The Kelpies, which stand at Grangemouth in Scotland. Equs Altus may not have the same scale, but it’s definitely born of the same (ahem) cloth.
Nikon F80 and Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF-D on Fomapan 400. Rodinal 1+25. 6.5mins @ 20°.
Taken on 13 March 2026
Nikon F80 and Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF-D on Fomapan 400. Rodinal 1+25. 6.5mins @ 20°.
Taken on 13 March 2026
When I took this I wasn’t really considering the subjects in the exhibited photographs. My subject was the lady looking at them. But I like how I’ve been caught watching by one of the framed individuals.
Nikon F80 and Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AF-D on Fomapan 400. Rodinal 1+25. 6.5mins @ 20°.
Taken on 13 March 2026
Taken when we visited the Wakefield Rhubarb Festival back in February. I shot quite a few scenes of movement like this during the day, relying on the microprism (rather than the split-prim) to focus. While things looked sharp in the viewfinder, many of the shots are slightly front or rear-focused. More practice is needed, I think.
Minolta X-300 & Minolta 50mm f/1.7 MD on Fomapan 400 (@320asa). Ilfotec DD-X 9mins @ 20°.
Taken on 22 February 2026
Minolta X-300 & Minolta 50mm f/1.7 MD on Fomapan 400 (@320asa). Ilfotec DD-X 9mins @ 20°.
Taken on 21 February 2026
Various pictures of Chinese dragons from the Chinese New Year celebrations in Sheffield city centre.
It’s a shame about the scratched roll of film, and the X-300 wasn’t the easiest to use on fast moving mythological beasts, but it was still good to be there and get a few photographs.
Minolta X-300 & Minolta 50mm f/1.7 MD on Fomapan 400 (@320asa). Ilfotec DD-X 9mins @ 20°.
Taken on 21 February 2026
Minolta X-300 & Minolta 50mm f/1.7 MD on Fomapan 400 (@320asa). Ilfotec DD-X 9mins @ 20°.
Taken on 21 February 2026
Shot in Sheffield’s Millennium Galleries on the day I visited the Taylor Wessing Portrait Exhibition.
Minolta X-300 & Minolta 50mm f/1.7 MD on Fomapan 400 (@320asa). Ilfotec DD-X 9mins @ 20°.
Taken on 21 February 2026
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