Flowers Chu Chu, Konica Minolta Centuria Super 400
The blackberry blossoms and Chu Chu with some freshly picked elderflowers.
There are 2 ways of describing photographs like these – the first way is “dreamy”. The second way is “out of focus”. The Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 ais again. I’m pretty sure it’s back-focussing.
Nikon FM2 | Konica Minolta Centuria Super 400 | Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 ais
[expired 05/2006] More from this roll here.
This is the only roll I shot on the Mamiya C220 on our trip to the UK this year.
The wheatfields around Clanfield were looking spectacular. The blackberry blossoms were just starting to appear as well (I love the blackberry blossoms). The last 2 pitchas were taken on the last day of our holiday to Thailand in January.
I decided to upload the entire roll for fun and so I can use the “entire roll” tag again and add another post to that series.
The film expired in 2012. I really love Fuji Superia X-TRA 400 in 120. It seems to hold up very well when it’s expired. Such a shame it was discontinued. I recently found some on taobao – and bought quite a bit.
Mamiya C220 / Fuji Superia X-TRA 400 [expired 9 / 2012]
Wheatfields in Clanfield
Nikon FM2 / Ferrania Solaris 100 [Expired] / Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 ais
Some photos taken in Clanfield Meadow which is directly opposite my mum’s house. It’s a really lovely, peaceful spot. I used to wander through here with a camera when I lived at home with mum and dad.
This is the first roll of film I’ve shot with the nikkor 50mm f/1.2 – I’m still learning its ways. This was also the first time I’d shot Ferrania Solaris as well. It hasn’t been made for a few years now and is hard to get hold of. I recently found some online so decided to buy a few rolls.
I quite like it and it seems to have aged fairly well. I figured it’s probably expired by at least 5 or 6 years so shot it between 1 and 2 stops over. It’s hard to say exactly because the meter on my FM2 is broken and I sometimes forget my handheld light meter so I have to guess exposure or use sunny 16. I think it’s lost a bit of latitude as the whites seem noticeably over-exposed. I’m happy to have got the chance to shot some ferrania though.
Nikon FM2 / Ferrania Solaris 100 [expired] / Nikon 50mm f/1.2
Missed focus with the new Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 ais again.
We were watching my nephew play cricket on Clanfield Meadow when I took this pitcha. After that we went to the Rising Sun with my mum, my sister and her husband and James my nephew. I drank 2 pints of HSB. What a lovely evening.
Nikon FM2 / Ferrania Solaris 100 [expired] / Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 ais