I love trains! And I love film photography! Combine the two and we get a photo like the one below.
I visited a train museum. It was fairly dark inside and I only had ISO 100 film, Kodak TMax 100, so I had to be very careful about camera shake. Sadly, my hands are really unstable, even though I'm not someone in their 80s hit by Parkinson's.
Another challenge was the limited space in the hall. I put on my Pentax 24mm f/3.5 lens - the widest one I had with me. At least it is more forgiving when it comes to camera shake. There was this gorgeous locomotive but it was right next to a window. The extra light was welcome, but I was literally just some 2 meters away from the wall. I had to be brave. I estimated the focus, set the exposure, cocked the shutter and leaned the camera right against the window. It was risky - maybe I would mess up the composition, or maybe I misfocused - after all I had to keep my lens wide open. To my surprise, it worked out better than expected. It was worth risking a ruined frame.
| Camera | Asahi Pentax Spotmatic |
|---|---|
| Lens | Pentax 24mm f/3.5 |
| Film | Kodak TMax 100 |
| Format | 35mm |
The photo and the story are posted on my other social platforms, too.
That’s fun 😄
thank you for posting to the community! highly appreciated
I’m so glad I found the community. We, film photographers, are a rare species.
Tes we are.
Right now there are only 90 members of this group, we need some 10 more with the goal to start to give away the rewards.
amazing try and the result you got
i love to read the details about how you took this "portrait" of the locomotive
i think that Spotmatic was my first film camera - I got it as a gift, but there were some problems with the shutter of the camera, so I used it very briefly.
Many thanks! My Spotmatic is my second film camera (excluding my father’s automatic one that wasn’t anything impressive to begin with). The shutter on the Spotmatic is in bad shape. 1/250 and 1/500 don’t work - the second curtain lags. Then the speeds between 1/125 and 1/15 are one stop slower than what they should be, but I’ve learned to deal with its quirkiness.
oh you're good :-)
so i understand that you use it very often
Yes, I’m very much into film photography. I also have a medium format that I use fairly often, too.
wow good to know!
medium format is really my favorite due to the frame size and the number of details i can get in my shots.
i'm waiting for more film photography. :-) 💚💚💚
Thanks!
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