Tag: Pentax k1000
My Guitar is Calling Me
I haven’t played my guitar in months. What the hell is wrong with me?
Lahey
This is one of those “always have the camera with you because you never know what you’ll see moments.” My father was in the Lahey Clinic in Burlington, MA. I went to visit him and saw this on the top level of the parking garage. Is it interesting? Who knows. It clearly was to me at the moment I was parking the car, right?
Walnut Grove Cemetery
I took Dad’s camera to this location twice. The first time the film broke. The second time it jammed with about five shots left so I just rolled it up and didn’t tempt fate. Next time I’ll bring my Nikon instead but I’ll probably go black and white again because it’s spooky looking and I like spooky looking things.
Fun with Editing
I don’t have a clue how to properly edit photos. Not a single clue. I’ve been messing around with Lightroom on my iPad though and thought I’d post something for shits and giggles.
This picture was taken in my first roll of film and developed at a drugstore.
Once I got past the glee of seeing my first film shots it occurred to me that this kinda looks like moldy shit. Was it me? Was it the film? Was it the developing? Was it the scan? I didn’t know.
Here is a similar picture taken with my DSLR.
The colors here look accurate while the colors on the film pic look like two day old diarrhea. I tried messing with the film image in Lightroom to see if I could fix things a little.
I think it’s better but still not right. I also don’t really know what I did to get here.
What does all this mean? It means I don’t have a clue, but I want to do more. It also means I’m not getting film developed at the drug store anymore because none of the film developed and scanned by Old School Film Labs looks this crappy.
We will see how the first black and white shots come out. Hopefully soon. Fingers crossed for happy results.
Loaded
Dad’s camera is loaded with a roll of the cheapest film I could find. It fought me the whole way. It just wouldn’t stay on the track and roll on the roll. I’m guessing I flashed a bunch of shots, but we will have to see.
I took one picture of my beloved wife. I’ll wait for Halloween to take more, and that will probably be just a shot of the lit up pumpkin on the front step.
The film is ISO 100 which is super slow. I’m nervous that anything less than full sunlight is going to be too dark. Fortunately dad’s 50mm prime lens goes to f2 and let’s in a ton of light.
Faneuil Hall
I just reblogged this from the film blog, noticed that somehow the title was in italics, fixed the title in the original post, deleted the reblog, tried to reblog the post again and found I could not, assumed it had something to do with the comment on the original post, deleted the comment, still couldn’t re-reblog, said screw it and posted it directly.
Knuckle
Digital vs Analog Comparison
I started the film page with the idea that I wouldn’t post film images on this page (unless they were reblogged from the other page). I also said I was going to post digital vs film comparisons because… because. So I guess that allows me to post a few film pics, right?
Last week I put on a record and took a spinning media picture. Pretty sure I posted it here. I also took about the same shot with the Nikon Ebay film camera too. I think everything about the digital pic is better, but I also think I prefer the film pic. Maybe I am just an old fashioned sucker.
This one is digital:
This one is film:
Isn’t that interesting?
Now we move to Methuen’s little downtown area, specifically the used record store. I’ve taken this three times, one digital and two film, one with each camera. The two Nikons have a wider lens than the Pentax, so the Pentax is zoomed in much more than the other two, but you’ll get the gist of it.
This one is digital, it’s also portrait:
This one is film from the Nikon and it’s landscape:
This one is Dad’s Pentax. Like I said, it’s zoomed in more. It also has a coloring that might be from the roll of film or it might be from scanning it with my iPhone or maybe it might be because it was within about an hour after sunrise while the other two were later in the morning. I don’t know exactly, but I kinda like it.
Which one do I like best? I think the second one. The Nikon film one. I think I will do the Pentax one again at some point. If I do, I won’t get it developed at CVS and I won’t be scanning it with my iPhone.
Now I just have to try to remember not to reblog whatever posts these film shots end up on. I can do that (but I’ll probably fail).
Expired Film
If you were wondering what a photo shot on a roll of film that expired over 30 years ago looks like:
If you were wondering what a photo that was taken over 30 years ago but was not developed until today looks like:
I’m not sure where Dad took this picture. Cape Cod maybe? Or maybe it was on a Men’s Club trip to Myrtle Beach? No idea.
Inside the Red Head's Head 