A holiday from film ...

[tsiklonaut]

And ... you've reminded me that I have a P67ii lurking in the cupboard! 🙂

You lucky bastid, wish I could afford the mighty P67ii 🙂

 

[Keith]

You lucky bastid, wish I could afford the mighty P67ii 🙂

That phenominal piece of kit was sold to me at an amazingly generous price by a member here a couple of years ago ... I was very fortunate. The camera had virtually zero use and I got the 75mm and 105mm in the deal. 🙂

 

[hausen]

Totally get where you are coming from Keith. I have been on a hiatus from film for a couple of months since I got the RX-1 after dropping my M9 in the Harbour. I know you mention Rx-1 has no appeal to you but I love it. But just this week I massaged the shutter of my Linhof 612 and have gone crazy and shot 6 rolls in last 2 days. Processed one so far a results look awesome. So the old saying 'absence makes the heart grow fonder' applies with me and film.

 

[Sparrow]

... well at least one need not worry about x-rays on that particular holiday

 

[FrankS]

Shame on you, Keith!



😉joke

 

[bwidjaja]

Margus, thanks for sharing the wonderful photos of my home land which I have not seen for a while... I remember the wonderful days I spent diving in Lombok as well.

You guys are giving me some serious GAS for DPXM...

 

[Keith]

Shame on you, Keith!



😉joke

In internet speak Frank ... RAFLMAO!

😀

 

[Aristophanes]

The same reason I went for Sigma, the best digital "option" to stay away from the consumerist masses. I'm sick of megapixel numbers, tech-race & overhyping by the large manufacturers, and complete hype-based digital information overflow in the internet - dpreviewing etc that are probably mostly sponsored off by the large digital hardware or software manufacturers. A world mentally consuming itself.

Analog is like a domain of tranquility and meditation in comparison - a small shrine where you can hide and find peace and calmness. Makes me apreciate my Pentax 67 (I never got along well with 35mm film) that's as old as I am - amazing to think it still lives up and even surpasses some if not most of high-end digital cameras today, and it costs what - 300$. But it's the difference you see from the film that divides from the rest of 99% "another-digital-image-from-my-lunch" world. I'm lazy too and naturally would like to shoot digital and grow on a belly, but lately I just force myself to shoot more film and in retrospect it always brings a lot of joy once I put those negs and positives through my drumscanner.

Don't get me wrong, I love my Sigma DP2 like no other digital camera but nothing compares to what juice I get for my soul from P67 - I can change the sensor from B&W to infrared, color neg to E6. Sigma I use for documenting and it's small enough to carry along in the pocket to use as documenting and sometimes it's also filling a niche where P67 is too lardy or slow to use - i.e. quick shoots of street people where's big loss factor in the later selection or would be waste of film. All the thought-through art shots I leave to P67. I found they compliment each other superbly in this way, the best of both worlds.

Some film shots from my last holiday:

Wind's Painting by tsiklonaut, on Flickr











Dreaming - On the Ocean by tsiklonaut, on Flickr











Lombokian herder by tsiklonaut, on Flickr











Gamelan man by tsiklonaut, on Flickr











Tanjung Aan beach by tsiklonaut, on Flickr











Jungle river by tsiklonaut, on Flickr











Auratic Textures II by tsiklonaut, on Flickr
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No Photoshopping or digital faking, software simulating or emulating effects to get those images. Just scans and basic adjustments.

Just my 2c.

Margus

This is not a holiday from film.

These photos are film on a holiday!

Lovely work.

 

[clayne]

Keith, sometimes you don't have to shoot every day...

or every week..

or every month.

Sometimes you just don't have to shoot at all.