jlw
Rangefinder camera pedant
Often as I'm falling asleep I'll notice the weird striped light patterns thrown around my apartment by the combination of a security light outside and mini-blinds over the windows.
Well, the other night I happened to have a bit of insomnia, as well as an unfinished roll of Kodak B&W in my Bessa R3a. So, I put the Bessa on a small tripod, screwed in a cable release, and attached my 21mm Avenon lens (last-generation Kobalux, as sleuthed by Mike.) I still don't have a viewfinder for this lens on the Bessa (!) so I simply aimed it in directions that looked interesting and hoped for the best.
The pictures are no great shakes, although I found the stripy effect mildly funky -- I suppose that if I had a really patient model, I could do cool nudes or something with this effect.
What I thought might interest the forum was my exposure technique, or rather non-technique: I just set the Bessa on "A", the lens on f/2.8, the focus at 7 feet, and let 'er rip! I was pleasantly surprised, especially by the accuracy of the exposures (which ran to something that sounded like about 8 seconds.)
So if you're interested in photographing midnight in the garden of good and evil (or, as in this case, in the living room of restlessness and ennui) this could be a pretty easy way to do it.
Here are the pix:
Well, the other night I happened to have a bit of insomnia, as well as an unfinished roll of Kodak B&W in my Bessa R3a. So, I put the Bessa on a small tripod, screwed in a cable release, and attached my 21mm Avenon lens (last-generation Kobalux, as sleuthed by Mike.) I still don't have a viewfinder for this lens on the Bessa (!) so I simply aimed it in directions that looked interesting and hoped for the best.
The pictures are no great shakes, although I found the stripy effect mildly funky -- I suppose that if I had a really patient model, I could do cool nudes or something with this effect.
What I thought might interest the forum was my exposure technique, or rather non-technique: I just set the Bessa on "A", the lens on f/2.8, the focus at 7 feet, and let 'er rip! I was pleasantly surprised, especially by the accuracy of the exposures (which ran to something that sounded like about 8 seconds.)
So if you're interested in photographing midnight in the garden of good and evil (or, as in this case, in the living room of restlessness and ennui) this could be a pretty easy way to do it.
Here are the pix:
