A Few Friends and a Time-Traveling Moose

So that moose was hiding in a mysterious undeveloped roll film I found the other day, from my trip to Alaska in 2006, yeesh.

Walk Walk Snap

I recently took a couple walks with my film cameras, a pentaxk1000 I've had for prolly a decade, and a canonet ql17 g3 that I recently got off ebay. The canonet is known as the poor man's Leica, it's the first rangefinder I've ever had, I haven't shot enough with it to really determine how I feel about it, only a couple of the photos below were taken with it.

On these walks I just gave myself the focus "whatever is visually interesting/appealling", nothing complicated, and then walked around downtown for hours. These images weren't scanned in, I don't have a film scanner at the moment. I used a little portable light table I have, and my 20d to get them on the computer, taking a photo of the frames, then inverting them, so the quality of the "scans" isn't great, but it's functional for sharing on the internet.

I developed the negatives myself, which was something I hadn't done in years. It is a bit of a pain to work with chemicals and definately no where near as efficient as the streamlined digital process of today. But the suspense of having to wait to see the actual images, the care necessary in order to properly use the 36 frames (which you paid for), and the finality of your decision when you snap the shutter, are useful limits which would probably help any digital photographer to remember exactly what they are doing as opposed to snapping the shutter and checking the back screen until you get it right. So, here are some photos