My camera I have decided to use this month is my new Bronica ETRs medium format SLR - for those who do not know this camera, it is a poor man's Hasselblad. Usually, I use Agfa Vista colour film for this monthly project but as that is not available in 120 size, I have had to use Fujicolor Pro 400H (ok, not HAD to to use but the range of 120 colour film is not so very large any more).
My monthly topic is Bicycles.
The Bronica produces negatives that are nominally 6 cm by 4.5 cm which is much bigger than 35 mm negatives. The improved quality that the larger negative produces is lost when the negatives are scanned for Interweb use. Obviously, I get no choice here but to scan the negatives to a resolution that works for the blog. That is 1000 pixels by 740 pixels. The down side to larger negatives is that I get less of them on a roll of film - 15 negatives in this case. Even with this few shots, I struggled to get 15 shots of bicycles. of those I got, 10 are worth sharing.
Here are the pictures:
This first photograph is a child's bike that has been chained to teh safety railing along the Witham bank in town - I have no idea why, it has been there a long time now. I use it as a regular test subject for new cameras (
http://johns-old-cameras.blogspot.co.uk/) and decided to use it here as well.
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| High Bridge in Lincoln High Street |
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| High Bridge in Lincoln High Street |
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| Damaged bike outside supermarket |
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| Bicycle with new career as a shop sign |
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| Cyclist on the Brayford waterfront. |
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| bikes for hire, Brayford |
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| Damaged bike now missing front wheel |
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| Another bike with a new career, this time on Steep Hill |
