Vintage Lenses | Film Cameras | Street Photography
Rangefinder film cameras aren’t always the easiest to get to grips with when you’ve never used one before. As you can see from the title, I’d never used one before I shot this roll in my Yashica Electro.
If you’re wondering how it went, you’re not too far away from what I was thinking while shooting. I had no idea how it was going either.
The short version is it finished better than it began, which is understandable as you get used to a camera. The long version is inside. Come read it.
Fujicolor Industrial 100 isn’t the easiest film to track down outside of Asia, and even in its native Japan you might find yourself having to buy in bulk.
The question is, is it worth doing either? You can find out in this review, which features the backstory, overview of image qualities, some technical specifications, and a fair few real world example shots.
Come have a read and learn all about this oft-unheralded film with the curious name and a distinctly minimalist white and green box.
I was asked a question on an Instagram post that went a little something like this – “… how do you manually focus for street; what method do you use to guarantee pin sharp focus?”
It was a good question and one I appreciated receiving. While I did answer at the time, I thought it also deserved a more detailed guide on here. Because maybe you want to know too.
Shooting street photography with vintage lenses really isn’t hard once you get going. Come read and learn how, and get yourself inspired to give it a go.
No doubt there are plenty of ISO 400 monochrome films to choose from. Have you shot Rollei Retro 400S though?
If not, I think you should. I filled a roll with a few sessions of street photography and cannot complain with how it came out.
The film promises high contrast, fine grain, and good sharpness. How high, fine and good did I get, though? Come learn more in this review.
So you’ve been reading other people’s photography blogs and have thought about starting one yourself. The question is… how.
The answers are in this guide, laid out in a step-by-step way that will take you from the very beginning – choosing your blog’s name – right up to potentially making some money from it.
If that sounds like something you want to do, why not come read, learn, and get creating a photography blog you can be proud of today?
Look at that title. It has the number 365 in it. That means the #leesixtyfive project actually got completed. At no point was I 100% sure it ever would.
This update features the last batch of photographs along with some lessons learnt whilst doing the whole thing. If you’re doing a 365 project of your own, you might find some helpful nuggets here.
Come read, come see if the final images were any good or not, and come get inspiration and motivation for your own projects if that sounds like something you want to do.
The Olympus Supertrip is a point and shoot film camera from the 1980s with nothing but the most basic features. Sounds terrible, you might think. I don’t necessarily agree.
I’ve shot some street photography with mine and have not been unhappy with the results. Going out shooting was actually pretty good fun, thanks in the main to that dearth of settings to get bogged down in.
Come read this review to see some example shots and decide whether the Olympus Supertrip should make it into your own collection or not.
Number 11 of the planned 12 #leesixtyfive updates is here and taking us into the final stretch of the street photography marathon I decided to put myself through.
It features some shots from earlier in the project, as I needed to dig myself out of a hole and catch up, and some shot in the more correct time period for this chapter.
Come see how they look, my thoughts on them, and how the project itself is going with just one more update to go after this.
This Canon Sure Shot AF-7 cost me less than the lunch I had before finding it in a charity shop. It cost less than each and every roll of film I’ve since put through it.
So at that price, it must be a heap of junk, right? No, not right. Maybe I have low standards (I definitely do) but it’s actually not bad at all for the street photography I shoot.
Come find out in this review if you should seek one out too, or whether you should take the plunge and spend your hard earned couple of pounds or dollars if you also come across one in the wild.
![The First Roll from the Yashica Electro 35 GSN [Fujicolor Industrial 100]](https://www.myfavouritelens.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/shanghai-caricature-artist-800x539.jpg)
