While cycling home from my dress rehearsal shoot at Lady Margaret Hall (see previous post) I passed this nice looking motorbike (MZ Trophy) as it was waiting in the line of traffic at the South Parks Road traffic lights. I asked the rider (Simon) if I could do some quick photography of him on his motorbike with the cool film camera I had in my bag and he agreed so we carried on down to the Bridge of Sighs next to Hertford College. The motorbike is from 1971 so it’s a similar age to the camera I used. The camera I had with me was a Rolleiflex SL66 that had arrived in the morning so these are some of the first shots through it. Naturally I was a little nervous about whether or not they would come out because with old cameras you just never know. Fortunately they turned out great and I had both colour and black & white film backs loaded with me so I was able to do a bit of both. On the b&w roll I had a few blank frames at the start of the roll and I’m missing a few shots from the end so I’ll have to look at why that happened, possibly user error. Thank you Simon for stopping and for being so patient while I juggled with the film backs.
[Tech info:] Rolleiflex SL66 and 80mm/2.8 Zeiss lens, loaded with Kodak 160NC (rated at ISO100) and Fuji Acros 100. Processed with a Rollei digibase C41 kit and Kodak HC110 dilution H (8.5 mins).
![Take it to the bridge](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7096/7279022622_40bf73e3a5_o.jpg)
In front of the Bridge of Sighs.
![Light leak](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7219/7278980856_12a84acdb3_o.jpg)
I'm not sure where the light leak came from but I quite like it.
![On the corner](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8005/7278981314_69fa12296c_o.jpg)
On the corner. (Movie trivia: the building in the background was used as the front of The Eagle pub in X-Men First Class).
![Cool goggles](http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8022/7278981430_e71d36a609_o.jpg)
Cool goggles (I'm in there).