{"id":664,"date":"2016-06-22T23:41:28","date_gmt":"2016-06-22T21:41:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madshugopedersen.com\/blog\/?p=664"},"modified":"2016-06-23T16:13:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T14:13:50","slug":"going-old-school-with-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madshugopedersen.com\/blog\/going-old-school-with-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Going old school with film…"},"content":{"rendered":"

After selling all my Nikon gear some years ago, I bought a Leica M camera. The plan was to go old school, think before pressing the button and in general slow down.<\/p>\n

I have really enjoyed the last couple of years with my Leica camera, with all it’s quirks and limits. For me, it was the right descision and direction.<\/p>\n

I have always thought of shooting film again (I did it in public school about 25-30 years ago), however buying a film Leica is not cheap… So instead I thought, why not go a step further and get into medium format cameras… After a bit of research, I discovered that I could get a complete Hasselblad V system cheaper than a 35mm Leica film camera. The film (called a 120 film) gives\u00a012 frames on a roll and the negatives are 6×6 cm! Which is actually more manageable than having 36 frames on a 35mm film.<\/p>\n

I searched eBay for a 500 c\/m system, but prices were high due to increased interest in film photography lately. I ended up finding a 503 cx in great condition and actually a bit cheaper than the 500 c\/m’s currently on eBay. The camera is “only” 25 years old and in great condition. The 500 c\/m systems available were 10-15 years older…<\/p>\n

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I also found a Zeiss Planar 80mm f\/2.8 lens at a good price on eBay and now the system is complete.<\/p>\n

An 80mm lens on a medium format camera is roughly 44mm in the 35mm equivalent camera world.<\/p>\n

The next 3 photos are from my first roll of film, a Kodak Portra ISO 400.<\/p>\n

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Together with a few colleagues I went to Munich for a small photowalk. This time I have a black & white film (a Kodak Tri-X ISO 400) loaded in the Hassy. Maybe not the best choice for our destination…<\/p>\n

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We went to Schlachthofviertel where there is a lot of colorful graffiti.<\/p>\n

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I’m exited to see the results in black & white… This was a deliberate choice as I need to test various films to find the best one to my liking.<\/p>\n

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On the way back from Munich, we made a stop at the u-bahn station Westfriedhof, which is famous for it’s special lightning.<\/p>\n

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All in all, I’m extremely happy with my new Hasselblad system and I’m completely in love with the process of shooting film. It has a certain “zen” to it…<\/p>\n

This does not mean that my Leica will be put away, on the contrary, shooting film should hopefully improve my photography overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After selling all my Nikon gear some years ago, I bought a Leica M camera. The plan was to go old school, think before pressing the button and in general slow down. I have really enjoyed the last couple of years with my Leica camera, with all it’s quirks and limits. For me, it was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5,2,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-germany","category-munich","category-photowalk","category-wolfersdorf"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madshugopedersen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madshugopedersen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madshugopedersen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madshugopedersen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madshugopedersen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madshugopedersen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madshugopedersen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madshugopedersen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madshugopedersen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}