On this fine Friday morning, I would like to open up about a love of mine. I don’t know if this love is known, or appreciated, or even wanted…but it must be put out in a public forum for the world to see. I want to scream from the hilltops (if there were any hills in Orange County to scream from) that my body is bursting with an undying love.
This love is for my Mamiyaflex C2! Oh how I love thee. When the test rolls I took in Portland to make sure that you functioned properly came back, I was filled with a joy only few men know. I will be getting you your own key made tonight…the key to my heart…
Ok. I think I thoroughly went too far with that…but I did want to post about my Mamiyaflex. I got real lucky with it. I had been looking for a medium format twin lens camera for a while, and started to actively look on Ebay. For anything that wasn’t a plastic body (kinda like the Lomo or Holga of Twin Lens Reflex cameras) the prices were kinda outrageous. Horribly beaten up 2nd and 3rd tier models…..or immaculate Rolleiflex’s for a few grand!
In this desperation for an affordable TLR camera, I started calling local stores. I was thinking it was just a useless exercise, since usually, local stores were more expensive than online resources. Yet somehow (I blame it on the economy….just like everythingelse) I foundone at this used camera store for a little over $100 bucks. I made the guy agree to give me a full refund if the test rolls came back with any light bleed or anything, but thankfully…the camera is great and the pictures look fine. There might be a SLIGHT problem with the seals, but I can’t tell if it was just a reflection from mist on the lens.
In any case, I scanned my pics from Portland, and I wanted to put a few up. I scanned them on a high quality office scanner, so unfortunately you can see the lines on the photo paper (note to self, don’t scan at 600dpi…it’s too much).
Lemme know what you think. Also, does anyone know of a cheap way to scan medium format (120) film? I know you can buy scanners, or have them scanned, but I would like to get to a point where I could just pay for development, and any prints I want.
Here are my two favorite shots. If anyone wants to see more, I can post more, but here’s the shots that I really liked from my test rolls.
This is a shot of the second largest waterfall in the united states. Pretty amazing fact huh? So amazing, I can’t remember the name of the waterfall in fact! heh Anyway, Josh might be able to fill us all in on the name. It was pretty sweet, and since I couldn’t get a shot of the whole thing from the bottom (and it was too god damn cold and rainy to treck to the top) I decided to take a slightly long exposure pic of the bottom part. I like how it came out.
And one of my other favorite shots is one I took of Josh on the way up to the hill overlooking Portland.
It was kinda crazy cause not only were we all of a sudden in a crazy wooded area, but it also started hailing…so to fit in with the creepiness, I took an awkward pic of Josh on the side of the road.
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