Tag: takumar 105mm
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I recently grabbed some rolls of Svema 200 and 100, stocks that are new to me. The 200 made its way in to my Spotmatic and was my first roll of 2024. I kept the camera out of the sun while loading and unloading, so I didn’t suffer from the light piping that FPP warns…
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A slightly shorter post this week as I recover from being sick. Going the opposite way from my experiments in pushing hp5, I pulled this roll by metering and developing it at 200. The HP5 article I mentioned earlier didn’t talk much about pulling so I didn’t really know what to expect. But, as the…
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I grabbed a roll of CatLABS X Film 320 Pro in some random online order or another. Remembering my lesson from the JCH StreetPan I did some reading on the film before loading it in the Spotmatic.
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After learning that my partner and I were heading to Sparta, Wisconsin, a friend of mine suggested we visit the FAST Fiberglass Mold Graveyard just outside of town. It looked like a great place to take photos so I brought the Spotmatic and the Moskva V. It was very cloudy and a little rainy during…
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Recently I purchased a SMC Takumar 105/2.8 lens with the hope of using it in portrait photos. And it works great for that, I’m happy to report. But it also left me wondering how my other lenses and cameras work in portraiture. So I pulled together some good representative examples.
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Another test roll of HP5, but where the last roll had a bunch of shots I liked this one is boring
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I’ve added a new lens to my Takumar M42 collection, a 105mm/f2.8. Usable for portraits or to zoom in on any subject that’s about 6-10 feet away. It’s smaller and lighter than my 135mm/f4 and I find it to be much more useful. Over the tail end of the summer I made many trips to…
