Tag: Minolta MC Rokkor-PF 58mm f/1.4
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The roll wasn’t totally burnt, just singed mostly. The photos above are the best I was able to get from the roll in scanning, but as you might remember, runaway/overdeveloped highlights are my real bugbear. Once again, this Wednesday, I had the privilege of being reminded that when your chemistry is warmer than 24 or…
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For our Saturday adventure, Kathleen and I reached for a little bit of tradition and took a nice walk west through Centretown (where we live), Chinatown, Hintonburg, and ended up in Wellington West before turning around for a bus back home. If perhaps a little familiar, we more than made up for it with a…
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One of those things that come with having film photography as a hobby in the 2020s is that you are very much aware that the variety of films on the market today is a small subset of what was once on offer. And while I wrinkle my nose over older enthusiasts who dismiss the film…
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For this past Saturday’s adventure, Kathleen and I set our sights on The Glebe, where a host of second-hand and vintage clothing stores have opened in the last few years. While I continued my eternal search for more skirts, Kathleen’s interests were a little broader and less stubbornly trained on an article of clothing that…
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Since we’re now fully into “The Forecast Teases Charlotte” season, I have been spending a little of my downtime daydreaming about the arrival of Spring. The real Spring, I mean. Not the series of false Springs that we tend to get until mid-April and sometimes further. While thinking about it, I remembered a long walk…
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…and it wasn’t all that cold this time! Relatively, at least. It didn’t hurt that we got going a little later than usual, but when we did get out of the apartment to run our errands, it was a relatively warm -8C. I think what made that even more bearable was that we had a…
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For most of the morning on Sunday, we were caught beneath overcast skies. It was a perfect opportunity to finish the roll of Tri-X that I had begun on Saturday! Otherwise, the day was for chores. Since our office days have shifted recently, so has laundry day, so my day for doing the ironing has…
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We didn’t get too far this past Saturday. Instead of an adventure, we dedicated ourselves to personal care and a whole bunch of errands. Everything does seem to run out at the same time, doesn’t it? After my monthly brow appointment, we headed down Bank Street toward Hartman’s Massine’s to pick up a few things…
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Update (2025/12/31): I have a Mastodon account again. Long story short, 95% of my upset was Bluesky and it being the “Golden Era Twitter” heir apparent. Update (2026/02/04): I have a Bluesky account again too. I missed the #BelieveInFilm folks too much and, well, I’ve found most trans-with-a-camera types were either there or on IG,…
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Since we were expecting the skies to be overcast on Saturday’s adventure to Pine Hill, we decided to give our film a little two-stop push so that we would not be stuck with fully-open apertures in a darkened forest area. Of course – the best-laid plans – about one third the way through our rolls,…