Arnos Vale Cemetery

A trip out shooting one of my favourite subjects for black & white photography at Arnos Vale cemetery . An old Meyer Trioplan lens was a must for its vintage look and extreme bokeh when used with wide apertures. Click the images for bigger sizes

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Canon T90 in Use

After everything I've been saying about not investing in another camera system, I guessed it wouldn't be long before I did.

I was given a bag of old cameras back in March; inside the bag were a few gems (and a few dogs) including a rather scruffy Canon AE-1. Now I have always avoided the FD mount system and the dreaded `Canon Cough' that goes with these cameras, so I was surprised that it didn't suffer with said cough and even the match needle for the light meter worked. Sadly it had no lenses so I bought a couple of cheap lenses to test it out. After I'd used it a bit, I quite liked the camera, so inevitably I bought a couple more. The scruffy looking AE-1 was now letting the side down, so after a bit of research and some time on eBay, I got myself a mint T90. I have to say that this is the most feature-packed manual focus SLR that there is. It has some functions that Canon would do well to re-introduce.

Enough waffle; the home developed B&W film pics:

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A View of Laycock

More home developed B&W film shots from a dayout at Laycock. The camera again was the Chinon CE-3 with the Ensinor 24mm lens attached and the film was Ilford FP4+.

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Corfe Castle

These were taken at Corfe Castle in Dorset. The camera used was a Chinon CE-3 Memotron equiped with a 24mm Ensinor lens and Ilford FP4+ black & white film and developed by me. I felt that these picture would be better suited to B&W which I think has worked.

1st view when entering the grounds: (click images for larger view)



The ruins within:

This is the view from the grounds looking down on the village. I changed the lens to a 50mm Pentacon for this:

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