The other cameras have been making a fuss as I keep mooning over my new addition and ignoring them.

The Hasselbladski was especially miffed when prints cam back from the lab and I only feigned the tiniest bit of interest. (Some of this though was because he was naughty and didn’t wind on the film properly, and some of the shots over-lapped).

So, in order to stop a mutiny, here are some shots from the Zenith 80 which, hand on heart, are actually pretty awesome and have a unique, filmic quality.

I love my old vintage film cameras. I love my 21st century digital cameras. I love photography.

 

Here I am!

Oh, boy – I have been having lots of fun with new camera. Just getting the feel of it right now but I am loving what’s emerging from those little compact flash cards!

I’ve just been concentrating on still images until I get a good feel for it (and a bigger memory card) but it’s really breathing new life into the lenses I have – offereing colours and vibrancy I hadn’t noticed before. I like too that I can shoot into the sun and get all the detail I could ever wish for.

It’s only a tool though – it’s getting out there and doing it that matters. The only thing that matters, really. Hopefully I will have time to to do that soon!

I made a pretty-immensly-hugely-excitingly-expensive purchase a couple of days ago, and this was the first shot I took with it…

Oh my god, I still can’t believe it’s mine!

Perfect timing too as the very next day I met the lovely Leonie in Winchester who was just one step behind me in making the same purchase, so we geeked out with our cameras in the cathedral and decided that yes, it truly was an awesome camera!

To cut a long and nerdy story short – most comsumer dSLR cameras have a ‘cropped sensor’. In old money this would be the equivilent of being made to use 110 film in your 35mm camera. Now though, I have a full-frame sensor so all my lenses are being used to their full potential – they’re wider, more colourful and just generally awesome!

I’m forcing myself to read the manual. I’m not a ‘read the manual’ sort of person but I am feeling motivated by the possibilities that this camera’s going to bring – especially the thought of creating full HD video to create moving photographs!

They filmed the season finale of House using this camera, you know!