low resolution photography by davin risk

sun spots

Photo taken with a Canon AE-1

’ster grocery

Photo taken with a Lomo LC-A

A Toronto *eyes open* landmark. Also seen over at Chris’.

vent

Photo taken with a Canon AE-1

dumpster

Photo taken with a Fed5 Rangefinder

I’m putting this up mainly to show Chris (and anyone one else who’s interested) my first not wholely successful results with the Fed5 and Jupiter11 135mm lens. This is the best of the 7 or so pictures I’ve taken so far.

There are two big hurdles using a lens that isn’t the standard 55mm lens with the Fed5.

First, I have to continue to focus with the standard rangefinding viewfinder even though it’s framing is based on a 55mm view — so accurate focusing is tough.

Second, because I can only frame the 135mm view by using an extra mounted viewfinder (turret style for 5 different lens types) that sits roughly 5-7cm above the lens, there is a large parallax shift that I’ll have to learn to account for.

I think overall it will be sort of fun in the spring and summer when ungloved hands are allowed.

pipe

Photo taken with a Canon AE-1

overflow

Photo taken with a Canon AE-1

shadow grass

Photo taken with a Canon AE-1

skid

Photo taken with a Canon AE-1

path

Photo taken with a Canon AE-1

amber and ice

Photo taken with a Canon AE-1

This picture again shows my quest for visual warmth in our way-too-cold outdoors.

As a technical note, I’ve been using Agfa Optima Professional 100 and 400 in the AE-1 recently and it’s interesting to see the difference in colour strength from the Fuji Superia which I’ve mostly used before. The Fuji film has very strong blues and yellows and the Agfa has very strong blues, yellows but also reds. I’m not sure how much effect the Fuji chemistry at West Camera has on this.