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The strip Las Vegas, baby. I was visiting for a work conference so I brought a couple of film cameras along with me. I wanted to shoot gonzo-style - black and white film, high contrast, shooting from the hip, and capturing impromptu scenes within casinos and along the strip. I needed to be able to shoot quickly within the smog filled casinos. For this I chose the Olympus XA from 1979 with Ilford Delta 400 film pushed to 800.
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with a ~1935 Zeiss Ikon Box-Tengor, and Ilford Delta 100. Basically the best night photography setup possible (sarcasm). I obviously had the Box-Tengor at maximum aperture for maximum light, which is uhm f/11. Faster lenses are a scam by Big Glass to sell more glass. And faster film is a scam by big ISO to...
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35mm Ihagee Exa, as should be visible. This one shot on Ilford Delta 400, stand developed (though I don't think that makes a difference in this case) and darkroom-printed on multi-grade paper. 7x9.5 inches in real life. Like, almost DIN A4 size. It has a bit more midtones in person, but this also looks cool....
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Some of my film cameras. Probably not. But if I were to go back to shooting film, some of the reasons are in the picture above. Cloc...
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