This year I am going to use one camera and one roll of film each month. I will certainly use other cameras and other rolls of film but they will not form a part of this blog. I am going to think of a different theme each month to avoid 288 street scenes taken in Lincoln.
I am starting this project in March on my 61st birthday. March's theme is Day Tripping, so none of the photos will be street scenes in Lincoln.
The camera I have chosen for March is my Ihagee Exa IIa with my Carl Zeriss Jena tessar f2.8, 50mm lens. This is a heavy camera with the idiosyncratic Exakta shape. It is a fully manual camera so I need to remember to take my Zeiss Ikon Ikophot exposure meter with me. For the first few exposures I neglected to take the meter with me so they are exposed according to the Sunny 16 rule.
Usable shutter speeds are 1/60, 1/125 and 1/250 (there are other, slower, shutter speeds but I shall not be using them) and available apertures are f2.8 to f22 with click-stops every half a stop.
I like using this camera and it repays me with producing good pictures - even the Sunny 16 pictures have turned out OK. Incidentally, the film I have used is Agfa Vista+ - I use this film because it is reasonable quality and very cheap - £1.00 per cassette in Poundland. I have the film developed and scanned in Snappy Snaps in Lincoln.
There is some flare visible in the two Horncastle pictures but in the first I was shooting close to the sun and in the second I was actually shooting into the sun. The farming picture is better at showing what this camera/lens/film combination is capable of.
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| Burnham Overy Staithe sunset, using Sunny 16 rule. |
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| Horncastle market, Lincolnshire |
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| Horncastle traffic |
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| Planting potatoes |
