Grandparents

I like this picture. We were celebrating easter at my mothers place and my grandparents were there. I had a Contax RTS II back then, a beautiful black camera designed by Porsche and with four nice Carl Zeiss lenses. We took some fresh air on the balcony and I took a couple of quick shots of my grandparents there with my Carl Zeiss Sonnar T* 135m f/2.8. My RTS was loaded with Fuji Superia 200 and this picture was a 3rd price winner in the swedish Metro Photo Challenge, the people´s choice 2011 in the category "relationships". It felt nice that other people appreciated my picture and I felt it was also a little triumph for film photography!

Grandparents - Contax RTS II - Fuji Superia 200

First MX roll developed!

Yes! This feels great! Today I went back to my local photo store to get my developed fuji-roll back and I was really happy to see some images on the negatives. That means there are no major errors in the camera body so I was really excited to get home and scan the film.

There has been quite some time since I scanned some film in my scanner so there were a lot of dust and stuff there even though I tried to blow away most of it. I have not tried to be super-artistic in these shots, it was more like a "test-roll" to see if the camera and light meter work as it should. And to my big joy, it did! Everything looks great, even though the pictures was not my best.

I have one shot that I really like from ths roll and I´m going to show it to you. I use a Canon CanoScan 9000F, which is some kind of amateur-scanner but it is ok for now because  can´t afford a better one..It makes some kind of weird lins over my pictures, hard to explain but it tsakes some time to fix in Photoshop Elements 8, that I use. Sometimes I can´t save the shot so I have to re-scan it until it get´s better..very annoying...

Ok, here´s the shot from my first roll of film in my newly aquired Pentax MX:





The fallen one, a autumn leaf - Pentax MX + SMC Pentax-M 50mm f/1.7