Officially out on June 10th, my new nook 2nd edition arrived today in the mail. These are some quick notes and pictures from my first impressions.
Muir Woods National Monument
Continuing on the color kick, this past weekend Rachel and I headed off to the Muir Woods National Monument up in the hills near Mill Valley, California and shot some color film. I loaded up another roll of Kodak Ektar 100, while she went off with a roll of Kodak Portra 400. I had an additional challenge, however; I rented a Zeiss Planar 50mm f1.4, a manual focus only lens. First, a little about the lens. Continue reading
And now in color!
I like black and white film. There’s just something, I don’t know, magical about it. There’s a quality to it that you can’t replicate when shooting digital unless you spend lots of time in Photoshop (or cheat and use a film filter plugin).
That being said, color film has it’s own magic about it. This week, the weather was nice, the flowers were blooming, so I shot some Kodak Ektar 100.
This week’s film of choice, Kodak Tri-X
Continuing my black and white film kick, I loaded up some [amazon asin=B000I2JI3A&text=Kodak Tri-X 400] film and headed out to our local major landmark with a pocket full of chess pieces.
Kodak 400TX
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Jaunt through San Francisco
Last Friday I got the urge to take a roll of Ilford HP5 400 black and white film that I had sitting in my drawer for a while. I loaded up my camera and took off into downtown San Francisco.
