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Category Archives: Folder
 It was sunny! So I broke out the FP4+ and felt an overwhelming desire to use the 1934 Voigtlander Bessa RF rangefinder with its to-die-for f/3.5 Heliar lens and gigantic 6×9 negatives. Set the light meter to ISO100 and trotted off to Ladywell Fields where the dogs roam unmolested and unmolesting. The bad news is…
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Nov
19
2009
Categories: 120, Film, Folder, Fuji Neopan, Rangefinder, Rodinal, Zeiss IkonTags: Deptford, Laban, reflections, skips, stand development2 comments
 I’ve always been wary of skip guys and scaffolders since I was attacked by a wrench-wielding scaffolder on Effra Road in Brixton about 20 years ago. The lorry had nearly run me down driving the wrong way up a one way street and I was stupid enough to point this out. Exit pursued by lorry,…
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Nov
19
2009
Categories: 120, Film, Folder, Fuji Neopan, Rangefinder, Rodinal, Zeiss IkonTags: angels, cemeteries, gravestones, Nunhead, stand developmentNo comments
 My ongoing project-de-jour at Nunhead Cemetery. Today I was travelling light with the 55 year old Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta 532/16 (6×6) with the Opton Tessar f/2.8 80mm lens. Saturday was a glorious break between the incessant rain and generally crap weather. From a photographic point-of-view the light was somewhat challenging, intensely bright sunlight suddenly…
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Sep
11
2009
Categories: 120, Film, Folder, Ilford FP4+, Rangefinder, Rodinal, Zeiss IkonTags: arches, doorways, graffiti, Southbank, stand development, WaterlooNo comments
 Down under in the Leake Street tunnel, Waterloo, with Toby who is over from Down Under (Australia) for a few days. He had his Nikon D700. I had the Zeiss Ikon Super Ikonta. The D700 was rarked up to ISO 1600-3200. The Super Ikonta was being metered at ISO 100. There isn’t too much available…
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 Fuck capatalism (sic) What exactly is the mindset of the person who half erased the word ‘Fuck’ but left ‘CAPATALISM’ spelt like that? Huh? I’m not sure what I find most offensive *. However, what is left is in capitals, with a view of the capital of capitalism in the background (The City and Canary…
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