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This one’s from April last year. I took it at the Dippemess in Frankfurt, Germany — a big semi-annual fair that offers a mix of amusement, food and trade. The same ferris wheel was featured here shortly after our visit, but from a different perspective. This picture was processed with Lightroom and Color Efex Pro 3, using the Kodachrome 64 Professional preset.  Leica M8 + Biogon 28/2.8 @ f/4, 1/2000 sec, ISO 160 My Contax T recently decided to act up, exposing only every other frame properly. The rest of the time the shutter would either not open or not close, yielding overexposed shots or frame not exposed at all. (It needs to be sent in for repair, and I found a small company in Germany who will be able to fix it.) When I put in a roll of that rather expensive Kodak Ektachrome E100G, sometime late October, I wasn’t yet aware of the problem. Only while shooting it I noticed that the sound the shutter made sometimes wasn’t what I was used to hear — only a single “click” instead of two distinct ones. As it turned out — as with the roll of equally expensive Velvia 100 I shot before –, approximately 15 frames were exposed properly, the remaining pictures were either plain transparent or showed a blurred scene due to overexposure. Magically, though, the ghost that had possessed the camera seems to have been aware of the scenes I was shooting — I can’t explain otherwise why exactly these two pictures turned out so nicely, whereas most other “keepers” are of mostly irrelevant content.
 Contax T + Kodak Ektachrome E100G  Contax T + Kodak Ektachrome E100G I like the first one especially, because the light was simply magical, and the wide open aperture of f/2.8 caused a very pleasing blurring of the background. In the second one, I like the light-hearted and natural expression of both my wife and son. Two family moments to remember, captured in two pictures that had a less-than-50% chance of coming into being. As if the camera had known what it was doing. When my relatives from Switzerland visited Marburg recently, I took the opportunity to explore some well known and some less known parts of the city, trying to capture some autumn impressions. Since my uncle was unfamiliar with the Leica M8, I decided to take it along, not having used it much recently due to my ventures into film photography. I can say we had a good time, the Leica and I
 Leica M8 + Planar 50/2 @ f/2, 1/4000 sec, ISO 160 Finished scanning and processing two more rolls of film — one roll of Portra 800, and one roll of Elite Chrome Extra Color (“EBX”), both shot with the little Contax T. I originally loaded the Portra 800 to take some low light pictures during theatre rehearsals, but ended up finishing the roll in daylight, which worked pretty well except for having to stop down to f/16 most of the time. I find Portra 800 has very pleasing colours and very nice (read: unobtrusive) grain for such a fast film. Click the image below to see my stuff tagged “kodak portra 800″ on flickr.  Contax T + Kodak Portra 800 Kodak Elite Chrome Extra Colour, which is available for 4 € per roll at German “Müller” drugstores, is absolutely lovely in sunlight, but almost unusable in all other conditions. It has very vivid and saturated colours, very low grain and is rather sharp (as far as I can tell from my scans), with very warm colour rendition in sunlight. However, once you get into the shade, the pictures tend to get a strong blue tint, in the worst case makeing then unusable. I gave my best at salvaging those pictures, here is an example that had a very strong blue tint originally:  Contax T + Kodak Elite Chrome Extra Color It has still got a slight blue tint to it, but it’s far better than the original scan. However, I couldn’t get the colour any better in Lightroom.  Contax T + Kodak Elite Chrome Extra Color Click the image above to see my stuff tagged “kodak elite chrome extra color” on flickr. Next up: Kodak BW400CN (second try), Fujicolor Pro 400H, Kodak Elite Color 400UC and Fujichrome Velvia 100. Velvia 100F, short RVPF, is a Fujichrome slide film emulsion with very warm and saturated colours, ideally suited for landscape photography during the golden hour. It has a very strong red tint that limits its use to suitable scenes. I have recently shot a roll of this film with my Contax T. Click the image below to see all my stuff on flickr tagged “fujichrome velvia 100f”.  Sunset over Cappel, Marburg, Germany | Contax T + Fujichrome Velvia 100F |
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