What can you learn shooting film for 6 months with a Leica IIIC?

[Snowbuzz]

Ah, I'll try loading without shaping the leader this time. Shooting LF can be fast too: a Technika with cammed lenses works great.

 

[iammine]

A BIG THANK YOU to everyone of you.
Your words are really too kind.
Feeling that your own "work" ( my article and photos ) is appreciated is just amazing.
You make me want to write and photograph more!

If you liked my post, be sure to follow me also through the links in my signature.

There are some great shots in there. I especially like the top one (fisherman with the concrete blocks). I don't quite see whey you stopped after 6 months though?!

S

I had to sell the camera to pay a trip to Paris 😉

The picture with the horse is truly superb and is the one that stands out for me.

You might be interested in the work of Pentti Sammallahti...

Thanks for letting me know him! I am now looking at his photos.


Thank you everyone, again.
Giorgio

 

[gilgsn]

Gil, the Jupiter-12 is the same lens design as the 35/2.8 Biogon. Despite what you have read about Soviet lens variability, the J-12's seem pretty consistent. Apart from the Zeiss brand, is there a reason for you to spend more for a Biogon rather than a J-12? And particularly given you could keep the IIIc and afford the J12!

Well, I have seen photos taken with the J12 and they are far from being as sharp as the Zeiss. That said, they might be sharp enough, so, maybe worth a try... Thanks for the suggestion.

Here is one review: http://www.blog.bkspicture.com/review_Jupiter_12_35mm_f2_8.html

Gil.

 

[Pioneer]

I have never used the Jupiter 12 but I do own the CV 35/2.5 and I am very happy with that lens. It is not as inexpensive as the Jupiters seem to be but it is much less expensive than the Zeiss Biogon 35s.

 

[vkomu]

Really nice atricle, just got M2 with 35mm and try to stick with these

 

[Mablo]

Excellent and thoroughly enjoyable article. Thank you for posting it here. A few years back I did about the same, six months with one camera, one lens, one film and one developer. Like Giorgio, I learned a lot and also enjoyed it tremendously.

 

[philipus]

P.S. about the IIIc: cutting the film leader every time is a real bummer.

I humbly refer to this little clip I made about how I load my Leica II without cutting the leader.

This has never failed me.

 

[Pioneer]

I humbly refer to this little clip I made about how I load my Leica II without cutting the leader.

This has never failed me.

Nice little clip. Thanks for posting philipus. I'll have to try it next time I load.

 

[shadowfox]

I *really* like this particular photo:

 

[hepcat]

Giorgio, well done... on both the execution of the concept and the article describing it. I'm an old guy and most of us old guys learned our craft exactly the way you figured out on your own. And the best lesson is that there's no need to shoot digital any differently from film. That's what makes the digital-film debates so moot. Quantity of exposures does not equal quality of exposures. Obviously the work flow is very different between film and digital, but the methods of making the exposures can and probably ought to be identical. Auto focus and auto exposure can be convenient for snapshot cameras, but they really rob a photographer of the control necessary to make images the way you see them.

I hope you continue to build on the body of knowledge you've begun to amass. Again, well done.

 

[charjohncarter]

2. Exposure is underrated. Good paragraph, I still guess my exposure, BUT then use the meter just to see how 'off' I am. When I bought my IIIf with a 50mm Elmar, I didn't have the brass for a meter, so it was 'Sunny Sixteen' for a few years. You goof up a lot of slides before you get it down.