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4x5 Large Format · Film photography · Photography

Inside King’s Lynn Minster

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A quartet of pictures that I took while inside King’ Lyn Minster. While I don’t think the photos themselves are particularly outstanding, I am extremely impressed by the vibration control on the Tamron lens.

It was pretty dim inside the minster, as such places often tend to be, and I was shooting Ilford Delta 100 film, hardly the best choice for handheld photography in such conditions. The available light meant that I was getting shutter speeds of 1/10 sec to 1/20 sec, even with the lens as wide open as I could get it (f/3.5 is the widest it will go, but that drops down if you start to use even a small amount of zoom). I did brace myself against walls and columns where I could but, even so, those are impressively slow shutter speeds for handheld pictures.

The fact that these pictures are sharp (although with a little drop-off in focus because of the aperture) is a big confidence boost for my trust in this lens’s capabilities.

Inside King's Lynn minster
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Nikon F80, Tamron 28-300mm F/3.5-6.3 Di VC PZD & Ilford Delta 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 10 mins 30 secs @ 20°

Taken on 19 September 2024

35mm · Film photography · Photography

Rooftops in colour and black and white

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For whatever reason, I took tow very similar shots for the same location atop the old town city wall in Dubrovnik. The colour version with my Canon Sure Shot Z135, and the black and white shot with my trusty Olympus Trip 35.

I like them both, but err towards the monochrome version, I think.

This time in colour
Rooftops

Canon Sure Shot Z135 & Kodak Gold. Lab developed. Home scanned and converted with Negative Lab Pro.

Olympus Trip 35 & Fomapan 100. Ilfotec DD-X 1+4 8mins @ 20°

Taken 29 May 2024.

Digital · Photography

Sub-frame

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I’ll be back to posting mostly film photos again soon – maybe tomorrow – as I have a large backlog forming. I’ve one full roll of 135 developed and processed on the PC, but which I’ve published nothing from as yet. Then I have four rolls awaiting development (three 135, and one 120), and four further rolls in cameras with just a few frames left to shoot on each. Add to that some stuff that’s already on Flickr but which hasn’t been seen here and I’m going to be spoilt for choice when it comes to feeding the blog!

In the meantime though, here’s another picture from the little Ricoh GRIII digital compact that I took while walking the city walls that surround Dubrovnik’s Old Town.

I bought this camera because I thought it would be good for street photography (it’s what it’s probably most used for), but it’s great for lots of other stuff too. The lens is amazingly sharp! I sometimes wish it had a flip-out screen and / or a viewfinder, but I guess that’s being greedy.

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Ricoh GRIII

Taken on 29 May 2024