Sunny Stockholm

Photographing manually is fascinating and really back to basics. Retro photography, if you like. To me it is thrilling to manage to take pictures without help from the camera or exposure meter. Well, I have an exposure meter in my head. Easier to carry =) I use Sunny 16 rule.


Picture taken with Sunny 16 rule on a Zorki 4 with 50 mm/f2 lens and Tri-X

The real photographer

This week I bought an old camera. In fact it is older than I am. A Rolleiflex Automat 6x6, a TLR camera manufactured in 1952. I was so happy for the excellent condition of this camera that I wrote a mail especially to the seller and thanked him. He replied with a quote.

"The amateur is worried about sharpness, the profi is worried about money, the real photographer is worried about light."

Since nothing worry me right now maybe I'm an imbecile photographer.


Vällingby Center 21 March 2009 at 09.30.
Nikon D80, 50mm/1,4

Grandpa

Yesterday I became a grandpa to a lovely little girl. She will be a photographer, of course. She'll have one of my cameras as soon as she can handle the trigger =)

Siri Elisabet Meldert. Welcome to the world of photography.

Resolution

I made a New Years resolution that will be easy to carry out this time. Life is too short to be hard on yourself. My resolution is to run at least one roll of film in all of my non-digital cameras. So far I have eleven and until today three rolls are finished. If I buy more cameras they are of course included in the resolution. Here are some picture samples from the three rolls.



Bronica S2A


Chinon CE-5


Olympus Trip 35