monochrome_joy
Analog Enlightenment
This is me introducing myself. I am an amateur photographer who aspires to greatness. Well, actually, I would be happy with mediocrity if I could still be a humanitarian photographer. After traveling abroad a few times, I've realized that there are some important issues I would like to show using photography. Anyway,
I've finally been able to develop my first roll of film from my "new" M3. I received the M3 in better condition than I expected although the vulcanite was just waiting for an excuse to fall off. Thus, I gave it the excuse and ordered the grip-tac kit from CameraLeather and re-covered last week.
Taking most of the old vulcanite off was easy, however, the edges were quite stubborn and required lots of patience and elbow grease. After finally getting down to mostly metal, putting on the grip-tac replacement leather was really easy. I used the partial 'wet' method of only covering the bits that stick out and cause problems. The grip-tac is awesome and feels way better than the vulcanite did.
Of course, what good is a camera without a lens? And so my journey for glass began, ending with the Canon Serenar 50 1.8 in all chrome. Alas, the lens had undisclosed hazing from goKevinCameras on eBay but I was able to clean it to near spotless condition minus the disclosed cleaning marks.
Once I had the camera and lens, I picked up a cheap light meter, gossen super pilot, and hit the streets of Seattle.
Please forgive the poor resolution quality, this positive was made by holding the negative up to the light and taking a photo of it with my P&S and then I inverted it in Photoshop.
Taken at Pikes Place Market, a great touristy place to break into street photography as there are cameras everywhere, mostly DSLR's and P&S, but way more DSLR's than I expected.
And so, a new journey in photography begins for me.
I've finally been able to develop my first roll of film from my "new" M3. I received the M3 in better condition than I expected although the vulcanite was just waiting for an excuse to fall off. Thus, I gave it the excuse and ordered the grip-tac kit from CameraLeather and re-covered last week.
Taking most of the old vulcanite off was easy, however, the edges were quite stubborn and required lots of patience and elbow grease. After finally getting down to mostly metal, putting on the grip-tac replacement leather was really easy. I used the partial 'wet' method of only covering the bits that stick out and cause problems. The grip-tac is awesome and feels way better than the vulcanite did.
Of course, what good is a camera without a lens? And so my journey for glass began, ending with the Canon Serenar 50 1.8 in all chrome. Alas, the lens had undisclosed hazing from goKevinCameras on eBay but I was able to clean it to near spotless condition minus the disclosed cleaning marks.
Once I had the camera and lens, I picked up a cheap light meter, gossen super pilot, and hit the streets of Seattle.
Please forgive the poor resolution quality, this positive was made by holding the negative up to the light and taking a photo of it with my P&S and then I inverted it in Photoshop.
Taken at Pikes Place Market, a great touristy place to break into street photography as there are cameras everywhere, mostly DSLR's and P&S, but way more DSLR's than I expected.
And so, a new journey in photography begins for me.
