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Thursday, November 12th, 2020
I’ve borrowed a Contax T2 point and shoot camera from a kind friend of mine and have been taking it with me on a few walks recently to see if it lives up to its reputation. So far I can’t say it has. Below are some examples from a recent walk and you can see in three of them only the centre of the frame is in focus and the outer edge of the frame looks so distorted I wonder if there’s an alignment problem with the lens. Surely it can’t be down to a shallow depth of field. The strange thing is in the shot of the moss covered branch (second image) the blurry edges aren’t there so maybe it’s more to do with focussing at infinity? Maybe this is normal for this camera but no one has mentioned it in any reviews? Not sure.
[Tech info:] Contax T2, Eastman Double X film, developed in FPP D96 for 7mins 30secs. Pakon scans.

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Tags: 2020, 35mm, bagley wood, black&white, d96, double x, film, kodak, pakon
Sunday, November 8th, 2020
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Tags: 2020, 35mm, 40mm, black&white, d96, double x, film, leica, m2, nokton, oxford, pakon, people, photowalk, voigtlander
Monday, June 15th, 2020
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Tags: 35mm, black&white, endeavour, film, filming, HP5, iso1600, leica, m6, oxford, pakon, people, s7e1, summer, voigtlander, xtol
Saturday, December 7th, 2019
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Tags: 35mm, black&white, endeavour, film, filming, iso1600, leica, m6, pakon, people, s7e3, tmax, tmz, voigtlander
Thursday, December 5th, 2019
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Tags: 2019, 28mm, 35mm, black&white, d96, double x, film, nikon, oxford, pakon
Saturday, November 2nd, 2019
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Tags: 35mm, black&white, d96, double x, endeavour, film, filming, leica, m6, merton, nokton, oxford, pakon, people, s7e3, voigtlander
Tuesday, October 1st, 2019
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Tags: 35mm, black&white, d96, double x, endeavour, film, filming, leica, m6, oxford, pakon, people, s7e2, voigtlander
Monday, September 16th, 2019
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Tags: 2019, 35mm, black&white, fa, film, kodak, nikon, oxford, pakon, people, summer, tmax100, ultrafin
Tuesday, August 20th, 2019
Filming has begun on Endeavour series 7 and I was fortunate enough to document the cast and crew at work in Oxford recently. Lots of familiar faces and some new ones too.
For this roll I rated it at ISO1600 because of the low light level indoors but when I went outdoors I knew the highlights were going to blow out so I reduced development time by 10% to reduce the contrast a little. This is something I have started to do more recently and so far I like the results.
As usual on this blog, all images will be spoiler-free until after each FILM has been broadcast.
[Tech info:] Leica M6, 40/1.4 Voigtlander Nokton, Ilford HP5 pushed to ISO1600, developed in XTOL stock. Pakon scans.



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Thursday, August 1st, 2019
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Tags: 35mm, black&white, delta 400, endeavour, film, filming, leica, m6, oxford, pakon, people, s6e4, voigtlander
Friday, July 19th, 2019
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Wednesday, June 12th, 2019
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Tags: 2018, 35mm, ddx, delta 400, endeavour, film, filming, ilford, iso 1600, leica, m6, pakon, s6e4, voigtlander