Tag: takumar 50mm Macro
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I have not been shooting a ton over the past few months. Instead I’ve been spending my photography time in the darkroom, working on prints to give away this holiday season. That work has been very rewarding, but I wanted to create some new negatives so I finished shooting a roll of FP4 that’s been…
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I’ve taken a lot of indoor photos with my macro lens, but I’ve never thought of it as my everyday walking-around lens. And I’m not sure why. It may not be as nice or fast as my ‘normal’ 50mm lens, but it’s still a 50mm lens. And it comes with the added bonus of close…
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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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Some more photos from my recent roll of Catlabs Pro 320. A lot of my photography this winter has focused on this small orchid plant in my back room, shot mostly with the SMC 50/f4 Macro lens. With this roll I started experimenting more with backlit photos and using shadows to create pleasing compositions. Metering…
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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 shot a lot of Ilford HP5 in 2023. About a dozen rolls of it. And I still have a lot of it in my fridge. My goal in using a stock so frequently is to become familiar with it, and to find a way of shooting and developing it that works for me. Helping…
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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.
