TL(D)R

How many mundane photos of a rainy walk to the shop can one person take you may ask?

Well, turns out quite a few as the same day I took my digital camera out for a spin, I also shot a roll of Lomography colour 800 film using another late night eBay purchase. This time a Rolleicord TLR that was suspiciously cheap so I wasn’t sure if it would be in working order.

As I had used colour film I posted it off to Gulabi yesterday and with a superfast turnaround I got the scans back today.

Obviously wasn’t the best of lighting conditions being it was dull and rainy but images are on the negs and I do appear to have managed to focus the camera so I will take both of those as positives.

Exposure wise pretty sure I messed up again as this is another manual camera with no light meter. I also quickly discovered it has a weird thing where you set the EV value then the aperture and shutter speed adjusts accordingly. So if you set that wrong, I guess it’s then consistently wrong for every shot - I probably should have researched this a bit more before I went out and started taking photos but where is the fun in that?

In saying that def going to make sure to RTFM before the next time I use it.

I also panicked at one point trying to focus a shot and instead advanced the film on slightly - the focus adjustment and film advance feel like they are on the opposite sides of the camera to where my brain expects them to be - however I quite like the imperfection it caused.

I used the last shot of the roll to take an incredibly glum self portrait in the window of ASDA (aka hell on earth on a Sunday afternoon) which I feel is a fitting tribute to how utterly horrendous I was feeling for the majority of last week.